“At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.” YearsLooksDoeCharacterAgeActionPastPlansHarmOur PastShortcomingsMiscellaneous Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945 Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.” SoulDonePastUsedDiesDarkSinSecretHalfPureDaughterConscienceFaultsIntentionHarmForestsPoisonMy DaughterBotheredDetachedResignedScruplesPure Soul Author:Georges Bernanos
“Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.” IfsWayNeedsChildrenUsePastHurtDealsCompassionCreativeChildhoodAdultsRaisedHarmMeaningfulLove And Compassion Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart