The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.
When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way. . . things are simpler" is always a gain.
If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.