Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.
BRAD MELTZEROur fathers never leave us. Ever.
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My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
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Life is filled with trapdoors.
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Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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In this life, y’ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They’re challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there’re divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
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Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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Today, I don’t believe in destiny. But I do believe in history…There’s nothing more powerful than history.
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Don’t go to eighth grade…don’t talk about something old…don’t bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren’t who we think they are.
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I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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There’s nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us – or admitting we can’t do it all ourselves.
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I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we’re their government. And people trust their government.
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Greatness isn’t something you should always be chasing. There’s greatness within all of us, and I think that’s what we forget.
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