Quotes About Guidance

It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.

To stand up straight with your shoulders back means building the ark that protects the world from the flood, guiding your people through the desert after they have escaped tyranny, making your way away from comfortable home and country, and speaking the prophetic word to those who ignore the widows and children. It means shouldering the cross that marks the X, the place where you and Being intersect so terribly.

An aim provides a destination, a point of contrast against the present, and a framework, within which all things can be evaluated.

Meaning is the Way, the path of life more abundant, the place you live when you are guided by Love and speaking Truth and when nothing you want or could possibly want takes any precedence over precisely that.

What should you do, when you don't know what to do? Tell the truth.

The vital process of socialization prevents much harm and fosters much good. Children must be shaped and informed, or they cannot thrive. This fact is reflected starkly in their behavior: kids are utterly desperate for attention from both peers and adults because such attention, which renders them effective and sophisticated communal players, is vitally necessary.

To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way.

La memoria no es una descripción del pasado objetivo, sino una herramienta. La memoria es la guía del pasado para el futuro.

That is the moral of both narratives: follow the rules until you are capable of being a shining exemplar of what they represent, but break them when those very rules now constitute the most dire impediment to the embodiment of their central virtues.

Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.

No podemos navegar sin un objetivo al que dirigirnos y, mientras estemos en este mundo, tenemos que seguir navegando.

Thus, the position of top dog, when occupied properly, has as one of its fundamental attractions the opportunity to identify deserving individuals at or near the beginning of their professional life, and provide them with the means of productive advancement.

And if you're not thinking such things through, then you're not acting responsibly as a parent. You're leaving the dirty work to someone else, who will be much dirtier doing it.

And, since we don't know right from wrong, or what is good, just about the most inappropriate thing an adult can do is give a young person advice about how to live.

To encourage my son to be a true Son of God? That is to want him above all to do what is right, and to strive to have his back while he is doing so.

Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

If you study art (and literature and the humanities), you do it so that you can familiarize yourself with the collected wisdom of our civilization. This is a very good idea—a veritable necessity—because people have been working out how to live for a long time. What they have produced is strange but also rich beyond comparison, so why not use it as a guide?

What shall I do with my wife? Treat her as if she is the Holy Mother of God, so that she may give birth to the world-redeeming hero. What shall I do with my daughter? Stand behind her, listen to her, guard her, train her mind, and let her know it's OK if she wants to be a mother. What shall I do with my parents? Act such that your actions justify the suffering they endured. What shall I do with my son? Encourage him to be a true Son of God.

Naše je duševno zdravlje plod kvalitetna uranjanja u društvenu zajednicu, i to u puno ve?oj mjeri nego što smo obi?no svjesni. Netko nas neprestano mora podsje?ati na to da se trebamo ispravno ponašati i razmišljati. Kada skrenemo s toga puta, ljudi kojima je stalo do nas i koji nas vole na razne nas na?ine guraju natrag na stazu. Prema tome, jako je dobro imati takve ljude u blizini

Parents are the arbiters of society. They teach children how to behave so that other people will be able to interact meaningfully and productively with them.

It has been said that every individual is the conscious or unconscious follower of some influential philosopher.

Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare. It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.