None of this is a matter of principle or asceticism; it’s just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”
I swear, my dad could have written this article himself! Haha. “That kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens” —-A wish and a resolution I am making for myself this new year. (:
A euphemism for stringing along someone’s interest in you until someone better is available.
“Hooked” is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedyHow I Met Your Mother and 104th episode overall. It originally aired on March 1, 2010.
[Beware of the] limits typical of digital communication: the one-sidedness of the interaction, the tendency to communicate only some parts of one’s interior world, the risk of constructing a false image of oneself, which can become a form of self-indulgence. - Pope Benedict XVI
“The Superior said, “We all analyze motives too much. I said that once to Father Thomas. You remember what Pascal said, that a man who starts looking for God has already found him. The same maybe true of love —when we look for it, perhaps we’ve already found it.”
“You can’t just suddenly call me and say you miss me! No, do not call me to say you miss me. Do not text me, do not e-mail me… do not write it on my wall! If you really miss me, come here and tell me that!”
“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. May 23rd was a Wednesday.”