I’d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.
Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.