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“But love isn't just about feeling good. It's about doing what you don't want to do, over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self-sacrifice.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Real love is gritty. It sweats and waits, it causes you to hold your tongue when you want to scream obscenities in anger, and it causes many men to accomplish extraordinary feats.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Dad, it’s not optional: your daughter needs you to be her hero.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Humility, however, prevents bullying and being bullied. When your daughter recognizes that all humans have equal value and never esteems herself above another, she doesn’t worry about asserting her superiority or take seriously a bully’s taunts. She knows that our worth is not in what we do, what we have, or what we are capable of being, but in the fact that we are human.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“You gently leaned over her to kiss her forehead and pulled the blankets around her shoulders. No father can adequately articulate the experience of watching his sleeping child—it must be lived. Now, imagine you are walking out of her room. Could you turn around and look at her and believe that the sum of her existence rests in a mass of cells? Certainly not. But this is exactly how a rank secularist is obliged to view his daughter. She is nothing more than a genetic product of his and her mother’s DNA. The puffing of air through her tiny chest keeps her alive. Your time with her is precious, meaningful, but purely a biological phenomenon. Her thoughts and feelings can be traced to neuronal firing in her brain. One day you will die and she will die and that will be that. Life began through the splitting and rejoining of DNA and when they stopped functioning, she did too.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“man can banter with his friends and colleagues about whether God exists. But a father looks at his daughter and knows.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“When you teach her always to think about other people, to put herself in their shoes, to know that everyone—her friends, neighbors, and sister and brother—is important, you’ll give her the gift of friendship and living to the fullest as a caring, social being. If you teach your daughter to be good rather than simply happy, she will become both. Teaching your daughter humility is a wonderful gift. And it can be taught only by example.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“True masculinity is the moral exercise of authority.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“People are valuable because they're human, not because of what they do.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Instead of saying, “I love you because you’re so beautiful,” tell her that you love her because there is no one else in the world like her.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Love her extraordinarily. This is the heart of great fathering. Chapter”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“At the beginning of her life, she will feel your love. At the end of her life, you will be on her mind. And what happens in between is up to you. Love her extraordinarily. This is the heart of great fathering.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“If you don’t give guidance to your daughter, she’ll come up with answers of her own—which means your authority will be replaced by someone else’s.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Pride excites us to take too much pleasure in ourselves, does not encourage us to take pleasure in our humanity, and what is commonly shared by all of us as social beings.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it may be warmth of feeling, but it has not the true nature of love in it.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“When you look at your sleeping daughter, you are confronted with a spiritual reality that you can’t deny. From the moment she was born, you sensed the awesomeness of her life, the fact that there is something mysterious and transcendent about it, that she goes beyond you and your spouse. A man can banter with his friends and colleagues about whether God exists. But a father looks at his daughter and knows.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“All it requires is that you be a man, a real man, which means a man of courage, perseverance, and integrity. You were made a man for a reason. You were made a man to be a strong, loving husband and father. So listen to your instincts, and do what’s right. Be a hero.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Be calm, patient, and frank. Tell her that women in magazines aren’t the best role models, that people who judge everyone on their looks probably have terrible self-esteem issues. Tell her that what matters is not how thin someone is, but what her character is. And tell her what is great about her, what you like about her, what you hope for her.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“Death is part of the natural order of life,” she would explain. “You shouldn’t be scared of it. You should be respectful of it.”
― James Ponti, quote from Dead City
“Aquele lugar lhe deixava um frio interior. Afinal, todos queremos no peito o nó de um outro peito, o devolver da metade que perdemos ao nascer.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“out. I had to sit down when the baby’s heartbeat dropped and they brought in this vacuum thing and literally sucked the squirt out. The nurses made me put my head between my knees and brought me orange juice.”
― Kelly Oram, quote from A is for Abstinence
“..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long time. Writers only like to sniff their own turds. I am one of those. I don't even like to talk to writers, look at them or worse, listen to them. And the worst is to drink with them, they slobber all over themselves, really look piteous, look like they are searching for the wing of the mother.
I'd rather think about death than about other writers. Far more pleasant.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“Let me share a famous life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of twenty-one; was defeated in a legislative race at age twenty-two; failed again in business at age twenty-four; had his sweetheart die when he was age twennty-six; had a nervous breakdown at age twenty-seven; lost a congressional race at age thirty-four; lost a senatorial race at age forty-five; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age forty-seven; lost a senatorial race at age forty-nine; and was elected president of the United States at age fifty-two. This man was Abraham Lincoln.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
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