The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
What one can be, one must be!
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Self-actualized people. . . live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.