As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.
My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.
Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.
Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.
We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.
Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.
You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. . . . It would be far, far better for us to let a thousand devils roam the world, and publicly preach the doctrine of devils (if there were such a thing, which there isn't), than to let one impostor and monster such a Moses, Joshua, Samuel or the Bible prophets come speaking the so-called word of God, and causing men to believe it.
Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.
If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct. . . , our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.