Quotes About Guidance

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought

Yes, you want your children to be happy. But sometimes they have to be unhappy in the short term to be happy in the long term. As parents, our job is to give our children what they need, not just what they want.

Where would you intellectuals be without us lower grade morons to lead you around? Totally lost, that's where!

If this book should ever roam, Box its ears and send it home.

That is—you are not to thank him for the money; he doesn't care to have that mentioned, but you are to write a letter telling of the progress in your studies and the details of your daily life.

What seems to you the right thing for me to do? Judy

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

So Lydia grew up with a mother who emphasized the importance of being independent and saving for the future.

When the coyote herds the migrants back to their route,

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Si les plantes sont un monde sans chef, le nôtre est un monde sans pères ni repères : plus aucun modèle d'identification pour tant de jeunes déboussolés !

Parents almost always want what's best for their children. They just don't always know what that is.

Aunt Claire, may I ask you a question?" "Ask away, young Jedi.

Your family are the people who pester you until you do the right thing.

My mother had a philosophy that guided her through many a rough time. 'Only worry when you can do something about it--whatever it is. Then it's not worry, it's thinking things through, trying to decide what's best. When there's nothing you can do, it's just plain worry, and it's pointless and self-destructive.

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.