Veronica Schram

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“Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid down. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.”
Yann Martel

“You gotta faith it to make it! Looking for a miracle to happen? Consider that perhaps something not happening was your miracle.”
Karen Salmansohn, Instant Happy: 10-Second Attitude Makeovers

Lorrie Moore
“Why not admit history's power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than the new ones? By living in the past, you always know what comes next, and that robs you of surprises. It exhausts and warps the mind. We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgmental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all.”
Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

Timothy J. Keller
“If you marry someone expecting them to be like a god, it is only inevitable that they will disappoint you. It's not that you should try to love your spouse less, but rather that you should know and love God more.”
Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“With all of these opportunities and very few demands--especially as some of our parents continue to pay for our amenities--we have been able to extend our adolescence into what used to be considered adulthood. This extension has inevitably pushed off the questions of marriage and procreation, and when those questions are pushed further back into our personal timelines, dating loses its significance as a means to an end, though arguably also a good in itself. And without a direction, dating and relationships lose their rules, or at the very least, some general parameters.”
Elise Italiano

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