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This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o� to Egypt and told you that they weren’t a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#life

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#brings #expand #gratitude #grow #helps

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#humility #relationships #life

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#psychology #education

If my name were Mark Twain, I’d write under the pseudonym “Samuel Clemens. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#pseudonym #writing #life

Psa 133:1 A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psa 133:2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; Psa 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. ↗

— The Spirit Of God

#blessings #david #lord #psalm #scriptures

And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#life

Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling ↗

— John Wyndham

#relationships #life

The most important trip you will take in your life will usually be the most scariest. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-mission #life-purpose #relationships #spiritual-journeys #life

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior. ↗

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

#education #psychology #raising-children #education