#discipline

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Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.


Bill Ayers


#compassion #discipline #love #parenting #love

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.


Thomas Stephen Szasz


#education #education

In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a set of schoolboys, tearing up their desks and throwing their inkpots at each other. The only possibility of co-operation lies in discipline and autocracy, which men have sometimes established in the name of equal rights.


Aleister Crowley


#cooperation #democracy #discipline #equality #government

That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow and when to reap, we will soon want for bread.


Thomas Jefferson


#political-philosophy #small-government #discipline

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.


Vivienne Westwood


#youth #discipline

In fact, according to physicians, the functioning of the digestion depends less on the brain than on hormonal mechanisms and autoregulators. However, during a fast, the digestive system gets an increasing rest. About ten hours after a meal, the contractions stop and the feeling of hunger disappears; five or six hours later the glucose stops coming directly from the intestines and begins to produce itself from the reserve of glycogen contained in the liver. From then on, the body works on itself in a closed circuit, becoming itself the source of the energy it uses. Instead of destroying an appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world.


Adalbert de Vogüé


#christianity #fasting #spiritual-discipline #experience

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.


Adalbert de Vogüé


#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.


Adalbert de Vogüé


#christianity #fasting #spiritual-discipline #experience

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.


Ann Landers


#character #class #cockiness #discipline #money

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.


Michael Chabon


#writing #writing-craft #writing-life #life