Soul Food (Food for Thought)

"We have an acute, almost biological, impulse to provide for our children, to give them everything they want and need, to protect them from dangers and discomforts both large and small.  And yet we know on some level at least that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship, some challenge, some deprivation they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can.“
– Paul Tough

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.”
– Native American Proverb

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
– L.R. Knost

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”
– David Brower

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

“Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”
– Tom Robbins

Soul Food (Food for Thought)

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.“
– Native American proverb