"the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her."

-- Gail Caldwell

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Strong Quotes

“No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.”
“What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.”
“Premie'Â re approximation: j'eÂ cris pour deÂ truire, en les deÂ crivant avec preÂ cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie eÂ veilleÂ e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.”
“The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.”
“It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.”
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
“What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.”
“Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.”

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