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Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

Brene Brown  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

How will I teach this mind what it is to have a soul? How will I teach this mind to understand pain? How will I teach it to want to take on another person’s suffering?

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

There are better ways to teach a child compassion.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

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Forgive me…for everything…I have done…A - a wiser father…may have done differently. I am not…wise.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

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The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other?’ ‘Choose a friend.’ I said.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

When a person comes to talk to you, you should be patient and listen. Especially if he has hurt you in any way.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

I stood in that room for a long time, watching the sunlight and listening to the sounds on the street outside. I stood there, tasting the room and the sunlight and the sounds, and thinking of the long hospital ward. . . Somehow everything had changed. I had spent five days in a hospital and the world around seemed sharpened now and pulsing with life

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

[My father] taught me with silence. . .to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul. . . . One learns of the pain of others by suffering one’s own pain … by turning inside oneself. . . . It makes us aware of how frail and tiny we are and of how much we must depend upon the Master of the Universe.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? … I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Chaim Potok  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed.

Will Ferrell  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

Philip Sidney  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Good prose is like a window-pane

George Orwell  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Oscar Wilde  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

President Ronald Reagan  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Morrie Schwartz  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Morrie Schwartz  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

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