Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
Grief is a process, not a state.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?
Now the denominator. . . why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator. . . that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!
You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way. . . in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
Leaders don't ever "arrive. " If we ever think we're done, we are done!