When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly
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  1. A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children - Markus Zusak

  2. When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?"... - Erma Bombeck

  3. The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  4. The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. - Karl Lagerfeld

  5. I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. - Anne Lamott

More Quotes By Robert Bly
  1. It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.

  2. Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

  3. I have daughters and I have sons. When one of them lays a hand On my shoulder, shining fish Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

  4. The human face shines as it speaks of things Near itself, thoughts full of dreams. The human face shines like a dark sky As it speaks of those things that oppress the living

  5. We have never understood how birds manage to fly, Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams, Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

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