Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.
It would be better for me to die than to live.
Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.
You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.
One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.
They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to.
If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.
The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life.
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.