Quotes from Les Parrott III

Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting—and conflict. Proverbs 17:1

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e. e. cummings

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with. Peter Marshall

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

God gave us the power to imagine the future but gave us no power to control it.

The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. Anonymous

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter F. Drucker

When we empty ourselves of our self-centered desires, when we surrender our desire to get our way, we are filled with grace. Each act of kindness improves our relationships. Each act of self-giving love expands our life.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Anthony Brandt

Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance . . . In your love you see only the heaven of your happiness, but in marriage you are placed at a post of responsibility toward the world and mankind. Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is something more than personal—it is a status, an office . . . that joins you together in the sight of God. Have

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Samuel Pepys

Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next decade or two, some acquire a sense of mastery over their surroundings; others acquire a profound sense of helplessness.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson