...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.

We don't want to feel helpless, so we use fear, anger, addiction, or unbridled sexuality to block out our helpless feelings. The fact is that if we cannot openly face our feeling of helplessness, we cannot receive help. It is important that we accept our helplessness, taking it to God and allowing Him to be strong where we are weak. When we let Him be God, we receive continuous healing for our woundedness. But when we hide our pain, helplessness, and insecurity, we find ourselves at the mercy of our narcissistic, wounded false self with its insatiable craving for validation and anesthesia.

David F. Allen, Shattering the G

Happily Ever After starts every time you woke up.

T.A

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

Samuel Johnson

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Mario Batali

We are confronted with the incompatible claims of Jerusalem and Athens to our allegiance. We are open to both and willing to listen to each. We ourselves are not wise but we wish to become wise. We are seekers for wisdom, philo-sophoi.

Leo Strauss

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

Edward W. Howe

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 19

Search for contentment in each person you meet.

Steve Maraboli

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Jennifer Garner

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Lionel Blue

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux