Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.
A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like
Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.
They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference,. . . The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership. . . . They've got all the authority already.
True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Deep squats work so many muscles in your body. Once a week, I do three sets of six, or eight of the free-bar ones, which can help out your balance and work more muscles than doing them on the machine.
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai. . . Other forms of Judaism dispute this claim, although it does explain certain passages in the first Torah, such as, I'm sorry, am I boring you? and What do you like better, Moses, Lord Almighty or Big Hoohah?
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
. . . the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.
When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.
We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.