"It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Influence Quotes #Relation Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Donâ€™t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
“Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .”
“I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.”
“I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'”
“Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.”

Source : William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.34, Macmillan
“The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings”
“Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!”
“If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).”

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