The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.
The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as 'Fat Man and Little Boy.') And a...
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
Righteous Lord, I have many who falsely accuse me. Defend me from them! But I also know my sin, and my heart rightly accuses me. I rest in Jesus’s atoning death for me.
Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.
Rewriting the history of technology. How, in science, history is rewritten by the losers and how I saw it in my own business and how we can generalize. Does knowledge of biology hurt medicine? Hiding...
Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.
Resurrection, he thought, comes not by plan or effort, and should the past ever come alive, it will be a great surprise, in which images and ritual memory will pale.
Resistance is not only about battling the forces of darkness. It is about becoming a complete human being. It is about overcoming estrangement. It is about our neighbor. It is about honoring the sacre...
Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and
Republicans proposed women’s suffrage as early as 1878, but it was voted down by a Democrat-controlled Congress. Republicans
Report! Freddy shouted. His fellow agents called back about their condition. They were all accounted for. One had a slight burn and another had been cut, breaking through a window to flood the basemen...
Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.
Remorse went out of fashion around the same time that Stop feeling guilty, and You’re too hard on yourself, and You need to love yourself more came into fashion.
Remember the time Pamela stuffed a bead up her nose and we had to take her to the emergency room to get it out? That bead cost us a fortune.
Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-d...
Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.
Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying.
Just tell me what's so irritating.(katsu)That's none of your damn business!(kyok)Maybe not. But I'm curious.(katsu)It's EVERYTHING you prick! God, you're annoying! It's everything,okay?! Them! And the...
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