"As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights."

-- Jim Gaffigan

#Pain Quotes #Dad Quotes #Light Quotes

“After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”

Source : Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”
“We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.”
“I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.”
“Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know itâ€™s over. There is no safe. There is no control.”
“. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .”
“Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”
“When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.”
“..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.”

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