top of page
.png){kind=small}
"To be, or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. But what if Shakespeare - and Hamlet - were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?"
Standard
Customized
More
"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."
Author Name
Personal Development
"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn't have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We shouldn't think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is “don't do it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We constantly pass up the rich and beautiful and ennobling experiences and seek out the tawdry, the cheap, and the degrading. These are the works of the devil, and they flourish on every side!"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)"
Life
"Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back."
Inspirational
"Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we'd slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life."
Relationship
"Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny."
Relationship
"Pictures can be pretty deceptive."
Psychology
"It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through."
Life
"My parents always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product."
Family
"I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me."
History
"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."
Life
"My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself."
Psychology
bottom of page