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“The best thing a mother can give her child is a happy and fulfilled mom. There are many paths to happiness and fulfillment--follow your heart and choose your own way.”
Source : Lisa Hammond (2004). “Dream Big: Finding the Courage to Follow Your Dreams and Laugh at Your Nightmares”, p.94, Conari Press
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“The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.”
Source : Victor J. Stenger (2012). “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion”, p.21, Prometheus Books
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“I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.”
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“Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.”
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“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.”
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“We all have appointments with the past.”
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“I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?”
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“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”
Source : "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.
