L R Knost Quotes

#1. For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

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#2. People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

Michelle Paver

#3. Instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let's raise children who turn out extraordinary because of their childhood.

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#4. Want to help stop the bullying epidemic? Don't act like a bully. Don't hit, threaten, ignore, isolate, intimidate, ridicule, or manipulate your child. Children really do learn what they live ...

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#5. Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.

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#6. As Maya Angelou, American author, poet, and self-described Renaissance Woman, wrote, Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

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#7. Parents, choose your words wisely, carefully, thoughtfully. In the same way that violence begets violence and anger begets anger, kindness begets kindness and peace begets peace. Sow words of peace, words that build, words that show respect and belief and support.

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#8. Keep working on you. Remind yourself that it's your emotions and experiences and expectations that are causing your outbursts, not your little one's behavior.

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#9. There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one.

Harry Chapin

#10. The ride is the only thing that makes the fall worth it.

Emma Chase

#11. Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?

Amy Hempel

#12. When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep ...
"I should have"
"If only I'd"
"I wish I'd"
... grab one of them and turn it into an "I will" and sleep peacefully knowing tomorrow will be a better day.

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#13. Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

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#14. Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Pope Francis

#15. Giving our children rest means being their safe harbor, their place to retreat when life hurts and the world looms large and people disappoint and mistakes are made. Becoming that safe harbor means being free ~ freely available, freely offered, freely welcoming.

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#16. Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

Penelope Hobhouse

#17. Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.

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#18. Flirting with madness is one thing. But when madness starts flirting back, its time to call the whole thing off.

Rohinton Mistry

#19. An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?

David Grann

#20. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.

Debasish Mridha

#21. No matter the problem, kindness is always the right response.

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#22. The parents' perceptions all too often become the reality. In other words, who they believe they are raising is who they will raise.

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#23. I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

Ted Allen

#24. She constantly piles up her hair with her hands and then lets it fall. She laughs, but there is no sound. It's all in silence - she is made out of yesterdays.

James Salter

#25. Discipline is helping a child solve a Problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solution not retribution.

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#26. Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.

Gerry Lindgren

#27. Saying someone can't be sad because someone else may have it worse is like saying someone can't be happy because someone else may have it better. ~Unknown

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#28. The fact is that hurting people hurt people, and children raised with condemnation in whatever form it takes are hurting people. Period. Words matter.

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#29. I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.

Dan Wells

#30. It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

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#31. None of us have much time. And yet you act as if things were eternal - the way you fear and long for them. ... Before long, darkness. And whoever buries you mourned in their turn.

Marcus Aurelius

#32. It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.

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#33. Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first, it means me too.

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#34. We spend most of our life bleeding from a blade that cuts from the inside out. . . I'm tired of bleeding.

Michael Knost

#35. If perfection were possible, the Cross wouldn't have been necessary. (Galatians 2:21)

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#36. Growing independence, though, doesn't have to mean growing separation. Humans were created to be relational beings. We may outgrow our dependency, but we never outgrow the need for community, interaction, appreciation, reassurance, and support.

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