"The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?"

-- BrenÃ© Brown

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.”

Source : John D. Caputo (2014). “How To Read Kierkegaard”, p.14, Granta Books
“Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.”
“Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.”
“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”

Source : Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”
“Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.”
“All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.”

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