The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.
Humanity's relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation - setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run - it doesn't always yield good results.
Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?
Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
How we respond to grief can shape our present
The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How m...
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.
My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance ...
The modern fitness scene is largely defined by the presence of pumped up, muscle-bound bodybuilders, expensive exercise machines, and steroids. It's wasn't always this ways. There was a time when men trained to become inhumanly strong using nothing b...
Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.
It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.
...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.
We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?
I don't think we can build much of a future,' says Shara, 'without knowing the truth of the past. It's time to be honest about what the world really was, and what it is now.
