People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there. ' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.
We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go. . . . God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.