That Is Life. Quotes
If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?
Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.
The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.
Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.
The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.
We are all like cells within the body of the Universe/ God—as are plants, animals, air, natural resources and everything down to a subatomic level.
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.
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.
A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth.
When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.
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.
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.
PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!
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.
If we, as mothers, are not careful we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior
I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.
In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.
Why did you throw sand when I just told you not to?"What child says, "Hmm, why did I? I guess there's no good reason. Thanks for pointing that out. It won't happen again.
We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature.
Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner, " or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.
A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.
This is why we can't have nice things...
I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.
I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.
This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.
Ignorance is the supreme oppressor.
Later: Woke up at 3:00 am and crept into Davids room. I talked to David about the ghost who came to live in his body, the sad soul who was taken back into the earth.David’s trophies are dusty again.
Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.
Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.
Focus your mind and you can create whatever you want. Sometimes, just believe and let the Universe work out the details. It may deliver the results in ways you could not have imagined.
What you believe or come to accept has infinite effects upon your thoughts.
But I comforted myself with the thought that the reward for every discomfort I suffered for God was a spiritual blessing.
He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.
It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.
I'm not going to lie to you and say it gets easier, because it doesn't. It's just that you get used to it. The human animal has an amazing capacity to get used to almost anything.
My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.
The language of nature is silence.
I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.
There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!
To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.
Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.
Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls….
He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.