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Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Quotes:

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We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

Topics: Holy, Pilgrim, Holy Places

quote to send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart phyllis grissim theroux Quotes

It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we become disconnected from the process altogether that we should begin to worry.

Topics: Long, Giving, Worry, Disconnected

Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.

Topics: Children, Sibling, Water, Pruning, Cactus

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Topics: Teacher, Appreciation, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Learned From Mistakes

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

Topics: Teacher, Appreciation, Moving, Letter Writing

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Topics: Garden, Thinking, Hook, Horticulture, Pulling Weeds

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

Topics: Grandmother, Grandparent, Bless, Mother And Grandmother, Mother Grandmother

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

Topics: Girl, Religious, Horse, Unanswered Prayers

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

source: - "Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark". Book by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, 1987.

Topics: Circles, Envy, Bitter

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.

Topics: Dark, Artist, Light, Dark Room

A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

Topics: Party, Eye, Hands, Duress, Sociability

one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.

Topics: Baby, Odds, Knowing, Against The Odds

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

Topics: Community, Levels, Consciousness

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

Topics: Parent, Asking, Innocent

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