I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.
If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor. "
And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move ahead in technology, how much do we move ahead in morality or emotion? We move ahead so minimally, minimally, minimally.
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest. ' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest. ' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.
I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.
I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.