That Is Life. Quotes
If we, as mothers, are not careful we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior
You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.
PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!
If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.
Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.
When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.
A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth.
I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.
The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.
Did you play by the rules and work hard but feel empty and unfulfilled? It's because you were lied to.
The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.
Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.
The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.
Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.
If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?
REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.
The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.
If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.
I'm so tired of people who can't be honest. "Beauty is on the inside" Really?? Then why do rich guys & successful guys always end up with beautiful women but they have lousy personalities?.
And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.
Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat
Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life
Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. “I had lunch at Maisie’s Diner.”“And?”“And what? It was the most revolting lunch it has been my misfortune to consume.”“And after?”“Diarrhea, of course.
Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.
Eat beautiful foods, which are nutritionally dense, wholesome and natural.
Simple foods connect with your body's needs in complex ways.
Love foods that sustain and protect you, and love you back.
The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued
In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.
I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.
If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?
He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.
At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.
If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.
Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence.
Peace is the friend we find in silence.
In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.
In my silence do I enhance my talents
Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.
Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words
When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy.
It takes time to figure it out.Give yourself sometime.It took Abraham 100yrs
Choosing life is always messy. But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all.
failure or success is not a mistake but a result
Remember, as a believer, you are already in God’s kingdom, even if you are still standing on this earth.
For believers, there is much more to existence than simply passing out of one world and into another.
If, in Him all things hold together, why would anyone ever want to be apart from Him?
If you are a Christian, especially if you are unhappy or frustrated, remind yourself frequently of the purple wedge in which you live.
Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?