“To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.” HumansQualityEventsSweetAmountNeededPerfectionCharityProsperitySunshineModeratesJuiceCourtesyPeachesHuman QualitiesRipeningApricots Book:Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household
“Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.” FeelsChildrenImportantEndsSufferingParentStepsDangerSweetNeededDegreesAnxietyOur ChildrenSeparationPower And ControlSymbiosis Author:Judith Viorst
“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.” WorldLifeLittlesBehindsSilenceSacrificeSweetNeededQuietSittingShadowLeavingCornersShyCricketLittle WomenBeth Book:Little Women Source: Little Women
“(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.” KnowsNeedsLastsNextSoundDogSweetNeededSettlingFriendlySolitaryOld DogNeeded Someone Book:The Underneath Source: The Underneath
“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.” ThinkingLooksLittlesMatterReasonEnoughMightStrongSweetNeededBalanceNegativeNo Matter WhatCommitAdmireCuteWorthwhileTimingHelplessAdoptedStrong EnoughBad Timing Author:Gwen Cooper
“No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.” StarsWaterKnownSkySweetNeededTasteSpringWeaknessAdversityTrialsDesertTriumphSandTestedGleamGlistenDesert Sand Author:Charles Spurgeon