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“Worrying is a kind of rushing: It’s uncomfortable to sit in a state of uncertainty, so we fast-forward the tape, accelerating our lives past the present moment into fearsome imagined scenarios.”

- Hurry Up and Wait, The NY Times Morning Newsletter

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“Tea is an amazing drink. I tell you, it can cure almost anything.”

The Mystery Guest // Nita Prose

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“…people tend to perilously ignore common sense and trust the machine.”

- The Man Who Trapped Us In Databases, The NY Times

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“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl

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“One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.”

Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl

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“Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one is still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such a tension is inherent in the human being and therefore is indispensable to mental well-being…What man actually needs is not a tension less state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”

Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl

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“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement…”

Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl

[ghoztwriter]

“Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.”

Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl

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“Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man—his courage and hope, or lack of them—and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.”

Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl

[ghoztwriter]

“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.”

Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl

[ghoztwriter]

“Without a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Christ now, and hope in a perfect life relationship with him in the future, married Christians will put too much pressure on their marriage to fulfill them, and that will always create pathology in their lives.”

The Meaning of Marriage // Timothy Keller

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“What is the purpose of marriage? The Bible’s answer for this question starts with the principle that marriage is a friendship.”

The Meaning of Marriage // Timothy Keller

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“The Christian principle that needs to be at work is Spirit-generated selflessness—not thinking less of yourself or more of yourself but thinking of yourself less.”

The Meaning of Marriage // Timothy Keller

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“Whether we are husband or wife, we are not to live for ourselves but for the other. And that is the hardest yet single most important function of being a husband or a wife in marriage.”

The Meaning of Marriage // Timothy Keller

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“…marriage only ‘works’ to the degree that approximates the pattern of God’s self-giving love in Christ.”

The Meaning of Marriage // Timothy Keller

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“And if your desire is for a spouse who will not demand a lot of change from you, then you are also looking for a spouse who is almost completely pulled together, someone very ‘low maintenance’ without much in the way of personal problems. You are looking for someone who will not require or demand significant change. You are searching, therefore, for an ideal person—happy, healthy, interesting, content with life. Never before in history had there been a society filled with people so idealistic in what they are seeking in a spouse.”

The Meaning of Marriage // Timothy Keller

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“Nothing can mature character like marriage.”

The Meaning of Marriage // Timothy Keller