If you don’t want your past to own you, try owning your past.
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing.
“Dads. Its time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. Its time to show our daughters how a girl should expect be treated. Its time to show forgiveness and compassion. Its time to show our ...”
“My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, thats different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions hav...”
“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.”
“People who love themselves, dont hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
“Dont we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be doing that has noth...”
“Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the dumbest thing youve ever se...”
“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”
“We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them,...”
“The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvag...”
“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”