We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.
Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.
Most of us only dream, some of us go and get their dreams. Dreamers know failure; dreamers in action know victory.
We realize too late that President Bush shouldn't have taken us into Iraq, and President Obama shouldn't have taken us out.
I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
When we commit our lives to the Lord, He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.
The grace and blessing of God is sufficient to carry us through the storms of life. With persistence and determination, victory awaits us at end of the journey.
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. Life is like that, so why not relax? Who can stop us from celebrating?
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
