“At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.” IfsFeelsFirstsChildrenUsedStrongGrowsWaterChanceRemainsWaveSwimScareFeel BetterCoping Author:Jonathan Kellerman
“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.” PeopleFirstsChildrenFactsLove IsEmotionOur LivesChildhoodDogReturnUniqueRemainsLasting Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
“The First thing to understand about the universe is that no condition is "good" or "bad." It just is. So stop making value judgments. The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.” KnowsWayInspirationalFirstsRealityValuesUniverseReligiousConditionsDependsJudgmentRemainsTemporaryThings ChangeStaticConversations With God Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.” YearsFirstsMayHas BeensTwoSoulShowsSpiritNationsRocksRemainsWaveDefenseSpellsHeroicBondagePolishGreat PowerPolandIndestructibleQuenchSubmergedTidal WavesWarsaw Book:The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940 Source: The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940
“We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.” WorldShouldMindFirstsHumansTwoMightStrangeComfortRemainsFeaturesFascinatingOur WorldHuman MindBizarreArcane Author:Stephen Jay Gould