Optimism Hope without optimism Hope against hope Unconditional surrender Noncontingent being

I was happy alone Because being together Meant being lonely Until you showed me That being together

If you give people enough space You’ll be amazed By their flexibility If you give people enough cyberspa… You’ll be aghast

I grew up listening to Barbara St… You don’t bring me flowers anymore and determined I’d never make that… Ten years into marriage my wife sa… Don’t bring me flowers anymore

Philosophers dream of “The view from nowhere” Granting pure objectivity Instead, we got the internet’s View from everywhere

When the devil told me “Fuck-up is a noun And so are you” I didn’t know if he meant I’m also a fuck-up

The word of God is written in invisible ink and must be lived in order to be truly seen unless and until those lives are d…

I used to stand on the moral high ground to look myself in the eye but now that I’ve plucked it out and thrown it away

In the New Age everybody knows that everything happens for a reason but nobody knows the reason so, everybody pastes together

The Fed has one lever to pull– interest rates– to keep all of us consuming

It’s obvious that God is doing us… But it’s less widely acknowledged… God calls in all His favors And the only way to return the fav… Is to try and do the impossible

If my peccadillos Are mere cigarillos Why is my hide as thick as an arma…

On a scale of one to ten One being the lowest Ten being the highest Rate yourself Then imagine

Honesty is the best policy but it’s not an evidence-based practice

When I was standing in the shallow end I really believed I was all in only later coming to realize