"You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents."

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Mallory Ortberg

#Children Quotes #Grandparent Quotes #Closeness Quotes

“When I'm out in the ocean and I watch a seabird, I think, "Oh, I probably I know what that seabird is doing" - and I don't study seabirds. And the same for the turtles and on and on. But with the whales, a lot of the time, I have no idea what they're doing, and they're the ones I study.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.”

Source : Ma Jaya Bhagavati (2011). “The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You”, p.85, BookBaby
“To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.”
“To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.”
“I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.”
“These qualities - things like deep listening, collaboration, flexibility, tapping into our emotions - seem to me to be the kinds of qualities that are intrinsic to women. I think that's the thing I'm most excited about: continuing to promote women in the workplace.”
“When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.”
“If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary”

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