#chi

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#continual #discipline #everyday #helping #i

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. ↗

— Faye Snyder

#children #inspirational #parenting #psychology #inspirational

The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride ↗

— Jhoomur Bose

#confessionally-yours #indian-writing #marriage #marriage

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#enjoy #future #happens #neither #nor

We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding. ↗

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#marriage

Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm had changed ever so slightly. Annabelle moistened her dry lips. “You …you mustn’t stare at me like that.” Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. “With you here, nothing else is worth looking at. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#change

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. ↗

— R.D. Laing

#philosophy #psychiatry #inspirational

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fairies #frost #winter #wonder #wonderland

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#inspirational #philosophy-of-science #science #inspirational

And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#childhood-memories #inspirational-life #inspirational-persona #inspirational-quotes #letting-go-of-childhood