I do all the better bears.
Caring for others is the basis of worldly success.
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.
In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn't.
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
You know what I figured out?" I hate this part. " Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am. " (276)