So vigilant were the authorities that a book called Contraception, which was a scientific book written specifically for the medical community, was brought into court on obscenity charges in 1931.
The floods of money that made their way into emerging markets in the period of low interest rates since the global financial crisis are, in most countries, either slowing to a trickle or reversing course.
Distraction isn’t always a bad thing. It all depends on the timing and type.
Love is the greatest and most excellent thing we are masters of and therefore it is folly and baseness to bestow it unworthily. It is indeed the only thing we can call our own: other things may be taken from us by violence, but none can ravish our love.
Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 7And he arose and departed to his house.
I find it helpful to keep in mind an image of Iron Man punching a hole through a brick wall. On the one hand, the actual wall-breaking force is being supplied, not by Tony Stark’s muscles, but by a series of exquisitely synchronized servomechanisms powered by a compact beta particle generator. On the other hand, from Tony Stark’s point of view, what he is doing is punching a wall, exactly as he would without the armor. Only much, much harder.
We are witnessing the emergence of a post-terror generation, one that rejects a worldview defined by a singular tragedy. For the first time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we see the outline of a politics that turns away from reaction and fear in favor of resilience and reason.
What if I hurt the baby?” “Hurt the baby how?” “I mean, what if I poke it in the head?
You’ve been home five minutes and I’ve already cried, yelled, gotten mad, and smiled. You’re something else.
What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve” –Napoleon Hill.
The boxer-philosopher Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” As we wander through life, what punches us in the face repeatedly is our environment.
IT’S true what they say about happiness. If you approach life from a place of gratitude, you’re more apt to enjoy things.
My heart cannot accept what my mind rejects.
They have stolen our vehicles and threatened to kill us, but they have not harmed us yet and cannot unless God permits it – and even then, it will be OK because we will be with the Lord.
Where are you all now? I feel lonely and bereft. Ghosts inhabit this house. When I go into the various rooms I feel overcome with a sense of loss.
We are always and everywhere in the presence of reality. Indeed, the human mind is the most complex and subtle expression of reality we have thus far encountered. This should grant profundity to the humble project of noticing what it is like to be you in the present. However numerous your faults, something in you at this moment is pristine – and only you can recognize it. Open your eyes and see.
They say you can’t read the next chapter of your life, if you keep re reading the last one. But then every car has a rear-view mirror.
We forget that God’s primary goal is not changing our situations and relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.
I ached for red silk romance, and carry me away passion, and I ached for it with nobody else but him. He was a breed of charming I couldn’t resist.
How absurd it would be if the further development of the menagerie itself would be held back by self-inflicted wounds!