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"Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter."
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."
"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
"The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight."
"Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives."
"All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative."
"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet."
"It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams."
"If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster."
"Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless."
"To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg."
"An injury may prove a blessing."
"I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do."
"I'm learning that the blessing is located in our poor people, in people who are weak; they are the ones we should stay close to, not because they need us but because we need to receive from them the blessing."
"Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination."
"Be a blessing to someone else."
"When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else."
"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
"Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted"
"Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January."
