#are

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. ↗

— Brent L. Top

#parenting #life

With the weapons that God has made available to you, he expects you to capture and hold captive every thought and idea that comes into your mind, and to examine these against the backdrop of the Word of God. Those thoughts that are in line with God’s will and purpose for your life are to be released and allowed to move freely within your mind. However, those thoughts and ideas that are contrary to the Word of God are to be held perpetually captive and cast out of your mind in the name of Jesus! ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#spiritual-warfare #life

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. ↗

— George Eliot

#growth #life

Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#difficult #easy #life #prepared #life

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#motherhood #mothers #parents #parents-and-children #sympathy

Child development does not mean developing your child into the person you think they should be, but helping them develop into the best person they are meant to be. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#life

For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#funny-but-true #insightful #funny

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ↗

— John Geddes

#self #self-awareness #the-heart #the-soul #the-spirit

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#always #choose #into #keep #life

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#doubt #grey-areas #seeking #life