"When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality."

-- Haim Ginott

#Hurt Quotes #Children Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortexâ€”asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.”
“As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower the music so you can hear the dialogue. We just couldn't do that for that song.”
“But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown
“Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.”
“The key to happiness is the decision to be happy”
“I love you so much â€¦ I donâ€™t want to live a single moment without you at my side.”
“If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.”
“I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times . . . the roses get it.”

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