Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.
If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.
Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.
Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.
What good is love if you never ask anything of it?
So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.
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