Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while. ' We don't have pigeons. ' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?
Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
What we do right now, today, matters.
Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.