Quotes About Guidance

Susan Cooper

Many of the time-honored [parenting] techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation are, quite simply, bad advice masquerading as wisdom.

How do you find a good Psychic? Go to Spiritualist churches, new age

I believe you have the heart of a lioness. You will protect your children with all you have. But sometimes the right thing to do is nothing. We have to let them grow and make their own mistakes.

You're right on the edge. You can go either way. I think the world would be a better place if you found your way back. Don't become one of the lost souls. We already have too many.

was easy to give someone else advice, but much harder to know what to do yourself.

I don't think God is ever done speaking into our lives. Even when we don't want to hear it. Even when our hearts are cold.

Walking into one's so-called "destiny" was the ability to see disruptions not as obstacles, but as road signs, then follow them where they led.

A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. —Madeleine L'Engle

It takes nothing to father a child. It takes everything to be a dad.

When she was little and a bad dream woke her, Gran would advise her to change the channel by turning her pillow over. It worked every time.

Only Grandfather knew the truth, that there was no career or calling more thrilling, demanding or rewarding than raising a child.

A book, too, can be a star . . . a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

It's funny how much influence our parents have on us." "True.

Every one of us knows who he is, and what God expects him to do.

My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

me, my Rebbe was the geologist of the soul. You see, there are so many treasures in the earth. There is gold, there is silver, and there are diamonds. But if you don't know where to dig, you'll only find dirt and rocks and mud. The Rebbe can tell you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do yourself.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'

A heartfelt, empathetically present, incrementally inspiring mom or dad or coach can liberate an ambitious child to take the world by the horns. As

For this reason, almost without exception, champions are specialists whose styles emerge from profound awareness of their unique strengths, and who are exceedingly skilled at guiding the battle in that direction. With

I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.

When things went to shit, girls called their mothers