The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do in our lives.
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.
I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.
The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.
Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today
I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'