“When kids are unhappy, we don’t have to prop them up with frantic praise. It’s more helpful to say, "Ugh, you are not happy with the way that bicycle came out. It doesn't look like what you see in ...”

— Julie Adair King, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

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“Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation”

— surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.-Personal Revolutions

Oli Anderson

“I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake u...”

— Logan Kain, The Dead Will Rise First

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“Our deeds will not cause God to love us more”

— our sins will not cause God to love us less.

Dillon Burroughs Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

“Cursing the sun won't stop it from rising”

— neither will cursing the stars stop them from shining.

Matshona Dhliwayo

“But then a peculiar thing happened. I became extraordinarily affected by the summer afternoons in the laboratory. The August sunlight came streaming in the great dusty fanlights and lay in yellow b...”

— for minutes at a stretch I sat on the floor and watched the motes rise and fall in the sunlight. I called Harry’s attention to the presence but he shrugged and went on with his work. He was absolutely unaffected by the singularities of time and place. His abode was anywhere. It was all the same to him whether he catheterized a pig at four o’clock in the afternoon in New Orleans or at midnight in Transylvania. He was actually like one of those scientists in the movies who don’t care about anything but the problem in their heads - now here is a fellow who does have a “flair for research” and will be heard from. Yet I do not envy him. I would not change places with him if he discovered the cause and cure of cancer. For he is no more aware of the mystery which surrounds him than a fish is aware of the water it swims in. He could do research for a thousand years and never have an inkling of it.

Walker Percy

“but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.”

— Will Durant

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“Quietly trying to manifest what you want doesn’t work, being a bitch does.”

— Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

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“Be patient”

— resentment will always reveal itself.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

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“Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness”

— you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Morning and Evening Based on the English Standard Version

“If your eyes dwell in your heart”

— then your inner voice will be your congenial Guide.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Those who try may not fail”

— but those who fail will not try.

Ivy Yuelle

“All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon”

— and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

Masaharu Anesaki Buddhist Art in Its Relation to Buddhist Ideals: With Special Reference to Buddhism in Japan

“The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion”