Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming.
Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.
My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.
I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. There are so many of us who do come from immigrants - even some people who support Trump's travel ban. I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.