Marriage: Before and After

Keep your eyes open before marriage. Half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Reach and Wisdom

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Edward R. Murrow

Filling Suffering

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with his presence.

Paul Claudel

Reading and Trouble

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

TV & Depression

The more a teen watches television, the more likely they’ll become depressed later in life. That’s the finding of a new study detailed in Archives of General Psychology.

It doesn’t necessarily mean TV viewing causes depression. It may just mean people who become depressed as adults tend to watch more TV in their younger years. Excessive TV viewing may be a warning sign.

Nevertheless, the University of Pittsburgh’s Dr. Brian Primack who led the study, believes there is strong evidence that television watching contributes to the problem of depression.

The participants in his study were surveyed while in school during 1995. They were surveyed again in 2002. Those who indicated they battled depression had watched 22 more minutes of TV each day than the other participants in the survey.

The researchers speculate that TV viewing could have cut into their sleep or the time they might have spent in socializing or organized after-school activities. It could have been the shows they decided to watch were disturbing or lowered their self-esteem.

Crying for Reality

It is mentally ill to weep over fakery on the screen and not cry over the reality on the street.

Camus

Love's Gaze

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How Much

It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

G.K. Chesterton

Never Too Late

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Swimming and Standing

In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Easy Advise

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

Questions, Questions

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein