Teresa Sharp

“Highly self-disciplined adolescents outperformed their more impulsive peers on every academic-performance variable,” the researchers wrote. “Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not.… Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“Every emotion, though horizontally provoked, nevertheless reflects something about the vertical dimension: our relationship with God.”
― Dan Allender, The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God

“I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus