Augustus Napier Quotes

#1. Ordinarily, only the person whom we really love, who touches our very roots, has the capacity to drive us crazy, and it may be only this person who has the capacity to help us find our deepest strengths.

Augustus Y. Napier

#2. The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.

John Bytheway

#3. The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Augustus Y. Napier

#4. It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.

Wallace Stegner

#5. Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

Augustus Y. Napier

#6. There are no such things as synonyms!" he practically shouted. "Deluge is not the same as flood.

Tom Robbins

#7. Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

Augustus Napier

#8. Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.

Edmund S. Lee

#9. Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

Meat Loaf

#10. Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#12. I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

Lil' Kim

#13. I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

Laura Riding

#14. This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Augustus Y. Napier

#15. Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

#16. One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

Bill Murray

#17. As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.

Augustus Napier

#18. Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Augustus Y. Napier

#19. Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

Augustus Napier

#20. Whatever is held and listened to will show us where it lives in the world and in us.

Mark Nepo

#21. I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

Douglas Sirk

#22. Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Augustus Y. Napier

#23. My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

Derek Jeter