When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.
Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities.
Life is uncertain.Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life.
Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep.
Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?
People will try to frustrate you in life. But you have to decide to stay determined.
America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently than at any time in recent memory, because that turns out to be a good coping strategy in hard times. Our nation faces huge challenges, no doubt. So do the rest of the world's aging economic powers. If you had to pick a nation with the right stuff to ride out the coming demographic storm, you'd be crazy not to choose America, warts and all.
Faced with today's problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.