“Papa Don’t Preach”

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

Anyone can be touched by magic.

Shit on the ground pretty much sums it up.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

An image can convince you of anything.

I’d like to walk around in your mind someday.

Best not to know what’s waiting around the corner.

Life is a battle so we dance.

The world is hard because people are soft.

Pride is the devil.

Not everyone is coming to the future.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

My heart is full of love but please don’t get in my way.

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

I know what I am and I know what I am not.

I laugh at myself.

My parents divorced, and I didn’t have much of a daddy growing up.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

You are not responsible for carrying the pain, trauma, or shame of your mother and father. Release yourself from carrying what was never yours to carry.