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“The National Institute of Mental Health spends only $4.3 million on fetal prevention research, all of it for studies in mice, from its yearly $1.4 billion budget,” Freedman noted recently. “Yet half of young school shooters have symptoms of developing schizophrenia.”
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”
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“In many ways, the happiness of having children falls into the kind of happiness that could be called fog happiness. Fog is elusive. Fog surrounds you and transforms the atmosphere, but when you try to examine it, it vanishes. Fog happiness is the kind of happiness you get from activities that, closely examined, don’t really seem to bring much happiness at all—yet somehow they do.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project

“Know this: You should judge every person by his merits. Even someone who seems completely wicked, you must search and find that little speck of good, for in that place, he is not wicked. By this you will raise him up, and help him return to God. And you must also do this for yourself, finding your own good points, one after the other, and raising yourself up. This is how melodies are made, note after note. REBBE NACHMAN OF BRESLOV”
― The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor
― The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor

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