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"The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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"Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people."
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"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."
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"Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower."
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"This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind."
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"Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them."
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"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."
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"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
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"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
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"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."
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"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
Connection

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
Cultural

"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."
Time

"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
Emotional

"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."
People

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
Want

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"
Psychology

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
Body
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