Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that...
Sustainable Life = Victory
I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifyin...
Sustainable life is Victory.
Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way.
I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in, and my mom grabbed Bluie from the shelf and hugged him to her stomach, and my dad sat down in my desk...
Children were vulnerable—helpless hostages to fate, their emotions so tender that a parent could with the smallest sentence, the briefest gesture, accidentally scar them. He did not want the burden of...
Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
You do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup.
He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his anger at his father, and every word, however well intentioned or intentionally barbed, was a pull at a s...
Give people room to be what God created them to be, don't force them to fit into your own mold
A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!
Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves.
Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exam...
…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was...
As I walk behind her down the halls, it happens. I shrink inch by inch until I am no longer an adult, but a baby toddling along in a comically oversized business suit. I have been pretending to be a g...
Cyril about Charles Avery:'Charles was a banker. He was quite rich but he was always cheating on his taxes. He went to prison a few times for it. And when he was younger he always had a string of wome...
I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move to go around feeling superior to other mothers. Because before she knows it, her l...
It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s Hello? after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mo...
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