Facing Critics Quotes & Sayings

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights. — Yo-Yo Ma

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road. — Buddy Rice

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven. — Mark Rubinstein

At any point God can change his plans for your life when he decides your life purpose needs to be protected. — Shannon L. Alder

We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help. — Thomas Aquinas

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer. — Epicurus

Some current critics of the U.S. Supreme Court like to point out that it does not allow the Ten Commandments, though written upon the walls of its own chambers, to be displayed in public schools. But where do we find churches, right or left, that put them on their walls? The Ten Commandments really aren't very popular anywhere. This is so in spite of the fact that even a fairly general practice of them would lead to a solution of almost every problem of meaning and order now facing Western societies. They are God's best information on how to lead a basically decent human existence. — Dallas Willard

Jenny lacked any sense of property - she was constantly apologising to Yevgenia and asking for her permission to open the small upper window in order to let in her elderly tabby cat. Her main interests and worries centered around this cat and how to protect it from her neighbors ... She fed her own rations to the cat, whom she called 'my dear, silver child' The cat adored her; he was a rough sullen beast, but would become suddenly animated and affectionate when he saw her. — Vasily Grossman

Play is the work of the child. — Maria Montessori

Love, at every opportunity you are given. Be less afraid. Embrace each day (none are promised). Cry when you need to, it'll make you feel better. You were put on this planet to feel every feeling you could, do that. Everything works out in the end, I promise. — Pleasefindthis

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity. — C.E. O'Grady

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it. — David Lynch