Living in an environment I can't control doesn't scare me. I'm partial to the surprises.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...