There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
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There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.
The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn’t matter what body it came out of. I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.
HARK how all the Welkin rings_x000D_ "Glory to the Kings of Kings,_x000D_ "Peace on Earth, and Mercy mild,_x000D_ "GOD and Sinners reconcil'd!_x000D_ Joyful all ye Nations rise,_x000D_ Join the Triumph of the Skies,_x000D_ Universal Nature say_x000D_ "CHRIST the LORD is born to Day!
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray.
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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