Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.