"Forgiveness is realizing that what you thought happened, didn’t."

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“Everything happens for me, not to me.”

“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

“If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.”

“You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.”

“What is is. You don’t get a vote. Haven’t you noticed?”

Resonant Thoughts

"There is no better means of reducing a fallacious variety of thought to absurdity than to let it live itself out completely."

— Carl Menger

Economics1840–1921

#mind

"It’s not as if we’re specifically thinking of jokes for adults and jokes for children. We think of jokes, and occasionally we’ll think of an adult one, but it’ll detract from the story. People will sa…"

— Richard Starzak

Entertainment1959

#mind

"After I finished reporting for this book on President Trump, I felt weariness. The country was in real turmoil. The virus was out of control. The economy was in crisis with more than 40 million out of…"

— Bob Woodward

Politics1943

#power

"“The true love wherewith God loves other spirits is not the outpouring upon them of graces which are the unearned gift of his miraculous power; it is the love, on the contrary, which holds the individ…"

— George Holmes Howison

Philosophy1834–1916

#religion