"Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't."

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Source : "Forget Flowers, 5 Ways to Make Mom Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

Bruce Feiler

#Tired Quotes #Kids Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
“...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...”
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.”
“In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.”
“I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.”
“It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.”
“Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy.”
“Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with the large, round surprised eyes of all fish, in which we humans cannot read any expression of pain or suffering, so that, as with insects or mollusks, we feel absolved of their deaths.”

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