Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
You know, you don’t have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
It’s our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That’s what’s essential. That’s what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody’s perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?
It’s important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.
Kids can spot a phony a mile away.
It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.
It’s not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It’s what resides inside.
If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!
Anything mentionable is manageable.
Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.