There's no way up but down.
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.
We need to mock false gods publicly.
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.
Turn your car into a monastery.