“Sometimes I suspected Ryan was merely visiting the real world, on vacation from his permanent residence in la-la land.”
“The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this is a permanent situation. And then they have to transcend their experience and grow from it and put themselves out into the world of real people.”
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
“Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.”
“Nothing in this world is permanent, the only thing that's permanent is change.”