“Son,
The scars are not what make you wiser. The lessons you learn from those scars are the ones that help shape your future.”
Source: Dear Future Son: Things I Wish You Would Know
“Son,
You have to learn to say no so nobody can take advantage of your generosity. Not everyone knows how to respect boundaries, and it is essential to protect your well-being.”
Source: Dear Future Son: Things I Wish You Would Know
“Son,
You should learn to separate yourself from things that cause you despair and those that leave you depressed. Take steps that make you feel blessed.”
Source: Dear Future Son: Things I Wish You Would Know
“Son,
You will never agree on everything with the people of this world. There will be moments when you disagree with them. When that happens, avoid divisive disagreements and learn to disagree with respect.”
Source: Dear Future Son: Things I Wish You Would Know
“Sharing knowledge is similar to breathing. It gives life to thoughts and ideas.”
“Erica had asked me a million times. 'Madison, are you sure you’re just the child minder? He pays you a lot of money for doing hardly anything.' Pushing aside the blatant insinuation that I was his weekend whore, I’d always told her the absolute truth. He’d never so much as looked at me inappropriately, let alone anything more.”
Source: If I Let You Go
“The wisest Wizards don’t hoard knowledge. They get excited when they realize how much they still don’t know.”
—The Unknown Archmage”
Source: Think Like a Wizard
“One teaches out of love: it's an impertinence, an imposition, in the end it's terrifying.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Everyone has to lose their way once. It's the only way they learn.”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 16
“Many Quakers embody the dynamic of contemplation and activism. Inward-focused contemplation compliments outward-focused missions to prisons, polluted rivers, and plastic-bloated seas.”
Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers