David Roel

"Work as if it was your first day. Forgive as soon as possible. Love without boundaries. Laugh without control and never stop smiling." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"1. Avoid gluten grains, dairy, sugar, candy, desserts, artificial sweeteners, soy, carbonated drinks and all GMO. 2. Eat mostly grass fed free range or wild meats, eggs and fish. 3. Eat organic, local, fresh, raw leafy green and red veggies, herbs and spices." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"Take better care of yourself. Stop pretending your body won’t fall apart if you don’t care for it. It is so sad to see people suddenly “surprised” to learn that fifty years of neglecting their bodies has created a pit so deep they can’t climb out." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"Spanking children can cause long-term developmental damage and may even lower a child's IQ" - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"No one wants to hear about drug-addicted runaways or Albanian teenage sex slaves. Nobody wants to imagine STD infections on movie sets or the life circumstances that would impel a woman to engage in physically punishing sexual acts on camera." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"While you’re meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise. All kinds of things come through the mind. Let them just come through. Don’t try to say whether they are bad or for that matter particularly good. Just let them come through, as simply as you can. By letting them come through, you find that there’s a sense of openness. You don’t find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"It is what I had sought all my life: the hardest challenge I could imagine creating, accepting, preparing and facing, then failing, falling, flailing… and getting up, coming back from WAY behind, and winning anyway. In the micro of that moment, I forged the macro of how I would chart my life" - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"So, when it comes to sex, clearly it’s unrealistic in long-term relationships to expect the kind of heat and desire and passion that we typically experience in the early days of a relationship and in our youth." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"Parents, please be careful with your children. They only get one childhood, and damage that occurs therein lasts a lifetime." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"While you’re meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise. All kinds of things come through the mind. Let them just come through. Don’t try to say whether they are bad or for that matter particularly good. Just let them come through, as simply as you can. By letting them come through, you find that there’s a sense of openness. You don’t find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"But when I decided I wanted to follow Jesus as myself, with both my head and heart intact, the slippery slope was the only place I could find him, the only place I could engage my faith honestly." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"Der Spiegel takes a look at the resort-like island that houses some of Norway’s most hardened convicts — they are given a wide berth to do as they please, but must complete their work and behave civilly, or risk being shipped back to regular prison. Is this how criminal rehabilitation could be done here?" - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"And while Americans love to talk about competition, Sahlberg points out that nothing makes Finns more uncomfortable. In his book Sahlberg quotes a line from Finnish writer named Samuli Paronen: "Real winners do not compete."" - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"At the beginning of Julianne Holt-Lunstad’s talk, she mentioned that not having sufficient social support is more deadly than smoking 15 cigarettes a day." - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"When a totalitarian regime aids and abets the rape of tens of thousands of children one would expect it to be shunned by governments and citizens alike. And any statements it might issue on matters of morality accorded no respect. Why should we make an exception when the regime is the Catholic Church?" - David Roel from Bookmarklet

"The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that includes drug company corruption, pseudoscientific research and a “standard of care” that is routinely damaging and occasionally kills young children." - David Roel from Bookmarklet