Geraldine Brooks Quote

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained...

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...

I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would th...