Quotes of: Us-weekly Keyword

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Searching for God Knows What

we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...

Tales from Toothaker: How We Used Humor, Hard Work, and Hand-Me-Downs to Create an Island Home

In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.

There's No Place Like Home

Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power

OCD, the Dude, and Me

It’s always been you and me, Red. Even before we were us. You’ve always had the control in this relationship. Some things may distract us, but I’ll always come back to you

The Only One

But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in t...

Paris in April

Let us work towards not only bringing civility back in style, but ultimately making it a lifestyle.

The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being sense its kinship to God and leaps us in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God.

The Pursuit of God

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

Phantoms

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

Preparing for Jesus' Return: Daily Live the Blessed Hope

Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

The "Perfect" Parent: 5 Tools for Using Your Inner Perfection to Connect with Your Kids

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Pride and Prejudice

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

The Promise