Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it.
I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.
Too often we forget how powerful we are as individuals to shape how other people see the world. Each one of us constantly broadcasts to other people - whether consciously or unconsciously - verbally or non-verbally - and those messages influence their brain.
There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.
Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.
Too quickly, venting can turn into dumping garbage on the people around us.
People will often say "You can't change other people. " My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.
In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.
I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.
The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist feeds and forms the Church: 'Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread' (1 Cor 10:17, RSV). Because of this vital link with the sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, the mystery of the Church is savored, proclaimed, and lived supremely in the Eucharist.