My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
God loves us so much that he doesn’t let us live forever so we can stop making mistakes
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but...
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Let us not question whether God is there; let us praise Him that He is there.
Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.
If the Love of Christ in us and through us does not affect others as it has us, then it is not authentic". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
