To forgive is to erase a past, depriving it of its power to stain the present. - Yi-Fu Tuan

Children learn early in life that they cannot always count on their parents’ attention much less their smiles, a lesson in human unpredictability that has to be learned over and over again.

Only God creates ex nihilo. Humans can only create out of something that already exists, which means there has to be an earlier destruction phase.

The world feels spacious and friendly when it accommodates our desires, and cramped when it frustrates them.