The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
There is no such thing as an ugly girl.
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.
In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained. '. . . An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.