Children

"Children change us in a way we desperately need to be changed. They wake us up, they wet their diapers, they depend on us. Willy-nilly, they knock us out of our selfish habits and force us to live sacrificially for others; they are the necessary and natural continuation of the shock to our selfishness which is initiated by marriage itself." - J. Budziszewski (from the foreword to "Open Embrace")

I wholeheartedly agree with this quote. Enough said.