Graham Charles

“Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Moon by Night

“Research shows that teens with empathetic parents actually have lower levels of systemic inflammation—a biological marker of emotional stress—but we tend to breeze right past offering empathy and instead serve up reassurance.”
― Lisa Damour, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Moon by Night

“Hate can be helpful to certain causes. It unites a group quickly, it gives a person identity—even if it is a negative one—and, most of all, it takes away doubt and all free-floating anxiety. It gives us a place to stand that feels superior and in control. Hate settles the dust and ambiguity that none of us like. Hate is much more common, and more immediately effective, than love. Hate, as we will sadly see below, makes the world go ’round.”
― Richard Rohr, The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder