Love is the difficult realization that something other than yourself is real. — Iris Murdoch I want you to take a moment and relive a vibrant memory. Maybe it’s a particular Christmas. Maybe it’s that time you learned you got the job. Whatever the memory, though, I want you to focus on it—recall the sounds,…
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey Pain—what an unpleasant sensation. If happiness is the ultimate good, then pain is the ultimate bad. However, if pain really is this unequivocally negative experience, why do we even have it? From an evolutionary standpoint, pain serves to remind us something’s wrong. Physically speaking, it alerts…
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. — Oscar Wilde Astonishingly, no one really knows why we dream. With all our development in neuroscience and technology, we still can’t de facto answer why something as…
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry S. Truman If you were a good American and free at 4:00pm EST on Tuesday, you saw the United States’ national soccer team fight valiantly but ultimately lose in the World…
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller The reason pirates wore eye-patches was not because they were always getting poked in the eye, but because they were constantly going above deck (where it was bright) to below deck (where it was dark). And in order to…
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. — Khalil Gibran What’s more embarrassing: forgetting something you were supposed to do, or forgetting something you already did? Actually, forgetting things I’ve already done would probably reduce embarrassment. What I’m trying to get at, here, is that unless my blog posts are suddenly being sent…