The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.
I am not one of the “slower” talents, like Reason or Mathematics. I am Music. If I bless you singing, you can do so from your first attempt.
Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.
Loyalty ruled this woman’s soul, but loyalty needs a partner.
It’s never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.
He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. ” ‘Love is the only rational act.
Heaven is always thinking about us.
You only have peace when you make it with yourself.
You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can’t tell Tuesday from Thursday. You’re doing the same boring stuff.
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – Dr. John Trainer.
But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
There’s no such thing as a nobody. And there are no mistakes.
We adults can be a wretched lot Chika, yet in every child’s face we see the Lord has not given up on us.
People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about loosing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.
Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don’t wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I’m getting. Not everyone is as lucky.” I.
But the world does not cater to our timing.
There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.
I think people believe what they want to believe.
All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you.