My life is a series of dumb choices
Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.
Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.
Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.
Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.
If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.
I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.
Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.
For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives were not good" is to fall into the impiety of questioning the wisdom of God in bestowing gifts of grace where He wills.
I'm working my way steadily back and I'm feeling good.