Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.
Ask and you shall receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive
Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.
The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.
When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.
The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.
No two people have the same reality
I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.
To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think. . . This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently. " And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before.