"One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life is to be feeding, clothing and educating the young. However, their really important ministry is to listen to their children and enable them to uncover the special blueprint that is theirs."

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Source : Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

Elizabeth O'Connor

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Special Quotes

“It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.”
“I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.”
“The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.”
“I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.”
“Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.”
“If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”
“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.”
“I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.”

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