“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
“Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.”
“we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.”
“The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.”
“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
“God usually answers questions different than the way we want him to. He’s predictably unpredictable. Always the same at surprising us.”