If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. . . . they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed. " It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.
Nietzsche famously said, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. ' What he failed to stress is that it ALMOST kills you.