I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.
Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection. ” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it. ’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.
All who call on God in true faith. . . will certainly be heard.
The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.