The Act Of Loving Is An Act

When We Love Someone Our Love Becomes Demonstrable Or Real Only Through Our Exertion - Through The Fact That For That Someone (or For Ourself) We Take An Extra Step Or Walk An Extra Mile. Love Is Not Effortless. To The Contrary, Love Is Effortful.

From The Age Of Three On, As Far Back As I Remember, I Just Knew There Was A God Behind Everything.

How Strange That We Should Ordinarily Feel Compelled To Hide Our Wounds When We Are All Wounded.

Idealists Are People Who Believe In The Potential Of Human Nature For Transformation. . . . The Most Essential Attribute Of Human Nature Is Its Mutability And Freedom From Instinct . . . It Is Always Within Our Power To Change Our Nature. So It Is Actually The Idealists Who Are On The Mark And The Realists Who Are Off Base.

If We Know Exactly Where We're Going, Exactly How To Get There, And Exactly What We'll See Along The Way, We Won't Learn Anything.