A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.
If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!
It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.
Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.
I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places. " More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.