Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
There is a transcendent power in example.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.
Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.
Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers.