Some days, doing “the best we can” may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
We Don’t always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world’s standards, but I think you’ll find it’s the willingness to keep trying that matters most.
I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother.
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
When we’re able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.
I hope that you’re learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one’s specialty is the most important learning.
Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline – from us and eventually from themselves.
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.
I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it’s always in the wings. It’s never with the spotlight on, it’s usually something that you don’t expect at all.
When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That’s an important thing for our children to learn.
You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.
One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.
I believe it’s a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.
I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That’s two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you’ll use the rest of the miles you’re given.
We’re all on a journey – each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.
Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.
There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.
To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.
There’s always someone who is trying to help.