role-model

Despite what you might believe right now, your son__ future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn__ matter what he does.

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you__ so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all." Isak__ eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him.

I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren__ supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.

A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.

But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsistent, and paradoxical as our own lives are?

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

. . and so it is that A Sensei may impart his knowledge of the martial Way and nurture your fighting abilities, but you must learn the wisdom of finding other ways than martial skills to solve your problems

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.

It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.