Maccabees Band Quotes & Sayings

real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don't want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want to be home, or if we are staying home when it is driving us crazy, then our parenting will tend to be influenced by guilt, resentment, and a whole range of other negative emotions. We need to make our best choices at each moment. We can't always have what we feel would be ideal, but we can actively do the best with the options as we see them. — Rahima Baldwin Dancy

And this commitment of ours - consciously devoid of official commitment - felt miraculous in its liberation. — Elizabeth Gilbert

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. — Lao-Tzu

Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is. — Karl R. Popper

the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press. — Helen Macdonald