“I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.”

“Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.”

“Were you there?She shook her head. No. I was here in Nain having achild.Then why do you weep as though you had part in hiscrucifixion? You had no part in it.Id like nothing better than to think I w...”

“Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.”

“What does the body matter if the soul is dead?”

“The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.”

“I dwell on endless possibilities.”

“Never give anybody permission to disturb your peace. Always ignore negative comment.Dwell on positive thoughts and occupied your mind with songs of praise.”

“I dwell on God's blessings.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”