The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile.
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.
It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.
St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.