#ge

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possbly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#inspirational #anger

Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks? ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#anger

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#choice #choices #deliberate #enough #equals

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#amount #children #concentrate #front #much

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#article #behaviour #bring #children #emotional

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#itself #loves #meaning #meaning of #mind

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise. ↗

— Mireille Mathieu

#because #curtain #fatigue #forget #red

If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#get #much #people #tired #too

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. ↗