Step Parenting Books Quotes & Sayings

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that. — Alan Greenspan

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent. — David Brooks

To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction. — Caroline Myss

For a long time I searched for the black stone that cleanses the soul of death. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk. — Adrian Rogers

If you express an intention, consider it the intention of God. How then could you doubt that it could be fulfilled? — Vadim Zeland

Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life. — Leland Ryken

While there are other parenting books with insight into childhood, Parenting from Your Heart goes a step further, showing parents how to put theory into practice with their own child in a realistic, compassionate and effective way. This book is worth its weight in gold!? — Jan Hunt

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another. — Mary Catherine Bateson

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. — John McWhorter

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. — Jean Baudrillard