"Don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we ( Read more... )

The God Who Only Knows Four Words by Hafiz

Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don'ts,
Not the God who ever does anything weird,
But the God who only knows four words
And keeps repeating them, saying:
"Come dance with me."
Come dance.

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

-- Howard Thurman

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. - Katharine Hepburn

As usual, Ursula Vernon articulates an opinion far more eloquently than I ever could:

I accidentally clicked into a discussion of spanking bans, which I read with vague astonishment, consisting as it did of people who thought it was a horrible abuse and people who thought it was totally normal and people who took the moderate position that there's ( Read more... )

"There are very few things in life that cannot be solved with white paint, a bullet, or an apology." -- Ursula Vernon

Selah, approaching me with her used napkin in her hands: "I'm going to marry this piece of paper. What will happen ( Read more... )

"Unless I'm home, I cannot be a great husband and father - especially the father of a child with special needs." - Benjamin Bratt, explaining that his 5-year-old daughter Sophia suffered brain injury at birth, resulting in physical disabilities.

Good man.

"Never give a sword to a man who cannot dance." - Celtic Proverb

"Be concentrated and leonine in the hunt for what is your true nourishment." - Rumi