I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. '
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
The world was hers for the reading.
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.
As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.
The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . . We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit,. . . so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.
The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.