Many traumatized people expose themselves, seemingly compulsively, to situations reminiscent of the original trauma….Freud thought the aim of repetition was to gain mastery, but clinical experience ha...
I’m going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.
I was irresistibly drawn to write about Latter-Day Saints not only because I already knew something about their theology, and admired much about their culture, but also because of the utterly unique c...
Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn mươi tám một trong những gã khùng muốn lên phía Bắc để sống như trong những câu chuyện tưởng tượng xốc nổi kiểu Jack London...
For a person accustomed to the multi ethnic commotion of Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York, or even Denver, walking across the BYU campus can be a jarring experience. One sees no graffiti, not a speck...
Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
«Tornare indietro quando era così vicino alla vetta...», osservò Hall scuotendo la testa il 6 maggio, mentre Kropp superava il Campo Due diretto verso la base della montagna. «Questo giovane Goran sì...
They share this common idea that a rapist is a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, who drags women into the bushes. But these undetected rapists don’t wear masks or wield knives or drag women into th...
The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman do...
La naturaleza es un lugar despiadado, al que le traen sin cuidado las esperanzas y anhelos de los viajeros. «Los
Is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It’s really hard. Some days are better than others, but it’s going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.
Going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect. Chris
Drunk guys who may have ‘made mistakes’ nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not. Compounding
A challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn’t a challenge at all.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the co...
With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill, Hall observed. The trick is to get back down alive.
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
When Debbie was fourteen, she felt impressed by the Lord to marry Ray Blackmore, the community leader. Debbie asked her father to share her divine impression with Prophet LeRoy Johnson, who would peri...
Walter Mittys with Everest dreams need to bear in mind that when things go wrong up in the Death Zone--and sooner or later they always do--the strongest guides in the world may be powerless to save a...
Thoreau’s declaration in Civil Disobedience: I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.