Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

I just wanted to go to a place where I would feel happy and I am happy now.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.