Spring had let go of Winter's hand and was reaching out to Summer
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.