CHARACTER IS FATE

we don’t need to put pictures of heroes on our wall. Instead, we can hang up pictures of our children and strive to make them proud, and this should inspire and fortify us when we have to make tough decisions for their future, for their safety, for their freedom.

To quit on ourselves is to quit on our kids—it’s

To be of service, never to humiliate.

They are good enough. The talents, the interests, the goals they have, are enough.

The main thing is for them to be healthy, to be prepared for life, to have good values, to have a good sense of who they are and what they want to spend their life doing. The main, main, main, main thing is to love them and for them to feel loved.

Compete with yourself and root for everybody else. —Candice Millard

For even after we leave this life, our children will carry with them, good and bad, the lessons we taught them by word and deed.

You think you’re modeling what a good person looks like when you’re struggling to get up the stairs or pick up a bag of groceries?