"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

Family, Children, Needs

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"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

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"When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood."

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"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

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"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

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"Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other."

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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

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"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."

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"When making a decision of minor importance I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters however such as the choice of a mate or a profession the decision should come from the unconscious from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life we should be governed I think by the deep inner needs of our nature."

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