"I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. â€œGod do this, God donâ€™t do that.â€ I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity."

-- Jean Plaidy

#Prayer Quotes #Annoyed Quotes #Littles Quotes

“You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.”
“Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.”

Source : John F. Carlson (1973). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.109, Courier Corporation
“You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.”
“I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.”
“We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.”
“A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.”
“Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.”
“Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.”

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