Quotes About Guidance

Not all instincts guide one to behaviours of survival. Life is mired in stupidity, after all, and the smarter the life, the stupider it can be.

In your family, your parents did not empathize with you. They expected a great deal more from you than you were capable of giving. At age seven, for example, you may have looked and acted quite mature, yet you still had your moments of whining and crying, you still needed considerable comfort and guidance. Your parents, not taking into account that this was to be expected, struck out aggressively against you because you were not acting according to their expectations.

Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.

Being a parent is a monumental thing. You shape reality for another person. You cannot be an illusion. You cannot be paralyzed by the fear that you are an illusion. If you have done a bad job, or no job at all, what remains of you is proof that the world is an unfeeling place. If you have done a good job, what remains is the part of you that was magical.

Steering is for people who know where they're going.

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.

No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

The aim of a good teacher, [is] to turn away the eyes of men from the world, that they may look up to heaven.

To be sure, Jesus will not follow you––you are called to follow Him.

let where you've been alone. Do that and the universe will lean in your direction.

I cannot imagine God is up there following some rulebook (or cookbook) that maps out all that must or should happen.

The dead have the easy road: they know the way, because that decision has already been made for them. Only the living are lost.

What would Apollonius of Tyana do?"—always his test for making a difficult decision—

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

Writing characters is like raising kids, only more work—because you have to do everything for them.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

Lily could almost feel Barbara's itching desire to take her in hand, dress her up, give her a purpose in life.

Our final destiny has been revealed to us. We have only to follow it.

Let her be. We must wait for the time when she's mature enough to take on the role we have created for her. If we intervene before that time, we could ruin everything.

Show us the face of the oracle, he who must be ours.

If he were straining at the leash, eager to become the True King, then, paradoxically, he would not be the right candidate. We must woo him carefully.

Valraven Palindrake must seek the way of light, for only then can past wounds be healed.