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Category: Keith Ablow

What about my rights? What about a person’s privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

The bad things don’t seem to happen to bad people.’That’s because they already did. There’s no original evil left in the world.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator’s refusal to experience pain.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man’s land–too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn’t get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that’s okay.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger–frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being’s intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

inspirational, psychology

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.