I am not a human being
trying to have a spiritual experience.
I am a spirit being
mastering the human experience.

Sunday, 10 April 2011

* Parenting * Family * Children *


"Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself."
- Astrid Lindgren

"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
- Plato

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
- Theodore Hesburgh

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."
- Benjamin Spock

"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
- Meryl Streep

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
- Desmond Tutu

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything."
- Michael J. Fox

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."
- Bill Cosby

"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the quote by Theodore Hesburg.

I just finished writing a blog about motherhood, I'm posting it tomorrow.

E. said...

Me too. :) Looking forward to reading your post tomorrow. :)

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