The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.
The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest o...
Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to ta...
In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. T...
you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhe...
Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habi...
there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of...
The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.
To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.
Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.
Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones...
In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.
Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.
The church of those who are redeemed by high-school reading lists. She
He read vividly.
Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; "The night cometh.
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave the...
The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.
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