Children are a great aid in both stress reduction and joy production.
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
When you give up speed, you open up time.
Monique said, Not having to rush is the greatest luxury an American can experience these days.
Memmi believes racism has four elements—an insistence on difference, a negative valuation of that difference, the generalization of that difference to an entire group, and finally the use of that diff...
If you want to know the time, ask a dog. They always know, and they’ll tell you the correct time, which is now, now, now.
Good Moral Character
Education is teaching children to find pleasure in the right things.
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer t...
When people come together, they can accomplish more than they can by individual actions. With this transformation from me to we, the wind picks up, the sails fill, and the boat is off. . . Media cover...
Too many people only dream at night. I like to dream during the day.
Our ideas about how to deal with pain do not seem relevant to many newcomers.
Newcomers don't want to learn English.
Building a good day is about making good choices involving our emotions, thinking, and behavior.
Lovability
Intentionality, or Being Thoughtful about Choices
I also try not to evaluate myself in terms of the results of my actions. Rather, I focus on the quality of my interactions and the joy I feel every day.
Healing the earth is not a liberal or conservative idea— it is a form of prayer.
As long as we can do most of what we want to do, we are young-old age. When our health fundamentally changes the way we live, we have entered old-old age.
We don’t become our wisest selves without effort. Our growth requires us to become skilled in perspective taking, in managing our emotions, in crafting positive narratives, and in forming intimate rel...