A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.
I feel like every single person has guardian angels.
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.
I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
The thrall in person may be free in soul
My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.
The one who cares the most wins. . . . That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. . . . I cared the most.
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.
A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.
It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.