‎"Pain is only valuable once you know that you've learned from it.” - Unknown

‎"When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else." - David A. Bednar

Christianity in Schools?

It's reasonably frustrating to attempt to use facts against a person whose argument does not revolve around facts.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.    – Simone Weil One of the profoundest laws of spiritual psychology is: you see what you are, and you are what you see. The observer cannot help conditioning what he or she observes. Those who cannot love see a world where love has little place. Those who live to enlarge their love, by contrast, see a world of hope: a world of men and women who, despite their failings, are capable of love in the core of goodness in their hearts. To see life from t