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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.

I’m always playing on Sunday, and that’s tough because I really never get to take the sacrament – maybe once every three or four months when I’m home and have a week off.

If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.

It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.

Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.