What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
I usually need to sit with pain a while. Really feel it. Then I need to talk it out. Luckily, I am surrounded by wonderful listeners who haven't told me to shut up yet.
My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.
When I was out of work when I first moved to L. A. , one of the first things my husband and I did was buy season's passes to Disney and whenever I was bummed out about work, we would go to Space Mountain, and it was like a physical injection of anti-depressants.
I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.
Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.
My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass. " It is always true.
We make our own hell out of the people around us.
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.
I learned about sex the hard way. . . from books.