It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that. - Wendell Berry

"The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)"

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.