"Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter."

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Source : "What Can We Gain By Writing A Letter By Hand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 26, 2016.

Lakshmi Pratury

#Children Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Book Quotes

“Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?”
“I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein.”
“Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.”
“I have a lot of respect for marriage.”
“Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?”

Source : Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.454, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!”
“Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.”
“I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.”

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