"No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless"

-- Isabella Macdonald Alden

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Skills Quotes

“True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.”
“A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.”
“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.”
“The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.”
“Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.”
“There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.”

Source : "Revelations Anyone Can Have" by Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.
“Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.”

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