“Many great scientists and philosophers, among them René Descartes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Thorstein Veblen, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein, have had similarly strange and solitary personalities.”
Source: A Beautiful Mind
“Attention, time, dedication and nurturing is all our children need to blossom.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“our child will learn A LOT about how to love themselves from the way you love yourself. Yes, they will learn parts of how to have self-worth from how you love them. But most of what they will do in the way of self-love will be what YOU DO in terms of LOVING YOURSELF”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Make it OK for your child to communicate. Make him cause.”
“Only their children return; only the future revisits the past.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“As a society, we denounce "delinquents," "hoodlums" and "hooligans," but the truth is that we routinely fail troubled kids before they fail us. More children die each year in the United States from abuse and neglect than from cancer. For every child who dies, thousands are injured, raped or brutally abused. We shrug as millions of children undergo trauma in ways that harm them and unravel our social fabric--and then we blame the kids when things go wrong.”
Source: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
“Do not be afraid to climb the mountains you see. God would never take you to any mountain without equipping you for it. Just trust in Him!”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“A child raised catholic knows the world is not all it seems; knows that other realms exist above the clouds or thousands of miles beneath the floor. Though these beliefs may in their detail be discarded, the sense remains: that the earth is porous; that the eyes are not to be trusted.”
Source: To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
“Belief in self and self-acceptance appeared to have a direct impact on one's resiliency and overall worldview.”
Source: The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview
“Young children. Where are they looking when their eyes focus above our heads, or when they talk to “invisible friends”? The child senses things most adults have lost, and in the innocence of expression might describe what s/he perceives. More often than not, the parent or teacher of that child might pat him condescendingly on the head and tell him what a fun imagination he has, or things could become more severe and that child will be scolded for making things up. Soon the child will learn to ignore such nonsense, or at least not bother sharing it for fear of ridicule.
And so we forget.”
Source: Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook