"To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment--for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance."

-- Stanley Greenspan

#Children Quotes #Home Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.”
“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.”
“Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions - what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows.”
“When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.”
“This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.”
“Death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets youâ€™ll never see, the children youâ€™ll ever hold, the wife youâ€™ll never love. Itâ€™s frightening to almost lose your future and itâ€™s heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other peopleâ€™s tomorrows.”

Source : Robert Liparulo (2009). “Gatekeepers”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.”
“Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.164

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