But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.
Or is identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?
And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the indefinable heart's desire. For if in the end, she loves you, and she chooses you…none of the rest of this will matter.
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.
Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.
In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, now matter the time or place.
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.
This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere
Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
And I wish to thank you as well, Royce." He was puzzled. "For what?" "For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
