I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

I'd rather be happy than right.

Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.