God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
Common sense is no match for the voice of God.
Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.
The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.