Linhares Gera O Quotes & Sayings

As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received. [p. 88] — Mary Catherine Bateson

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life. — John Piper

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince. — Jaime Lerner

But that's a way to go on loving
a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56] — Shirley Hazzard

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change — Paulo Coelho

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. — Michelangelo

Why is music capable of inflicting such pain? Because it works on our feelings directly. No ideas interfere with its emotions. This is why "all art aspires to the condition of music." The symphony gives us the thrill of uncertainty
the pleasurable anxiety of searching for a pattern
but without the risks of real life. When we listen to music, we are moved by an abstraction. We feel, but we don't know why. — Jonah Lehrer

Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn't even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because of our imperfections, and growing as humans while we grow our little humans, those are the goals of gentle parenting. So don't ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself what you learned and how well you loved, then grow from your answer. That is perfect parenting. — L.R. Knost

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. — Cyril Connolly

It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes. — John F. Kennedy

I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman. — Erin Richards

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined. — David Malouf

I saw how changing my diet really benefitted my health. After I changed my diet, I was able to get pregnant, and then my eczema went away, and then my migraines went away. — Tia Mowry

Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool. — Dane DeHaan