This is the only badge of true friendship I’m sure of: not to be curious.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.
The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...