"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."

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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Parenting, Love, Son, Pain, Happiness

"One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: 'I see you; I notice you; I love you.'"

Molly Friedenfeld, American Author

Parenting, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

"Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Parenting, Parents, Education, Children, Attitude

"Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Parenting, Understanding, Empathy, Perspective

"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Parenting, Motherhood, Risk, Loss, Love

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Parenting, Influence, Psychology, Truth

"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Parenting, Anger, Children, Guilt

"I really love to read bedtime story for my kids before they fall asleep.Making them so excited and inspired, it's truly my favorite quality time."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Parenting, Family, Happiness, Love, Truth

"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."

Brene Brown, American Researcher

Parenting, Body Image, Influence

"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Parenting, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

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"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

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"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

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"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."

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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."

"One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: 'I see you; I notice you; I love you.'"

"Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages."

"Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born."

"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents."

"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."

"I really love to read bedtime story for my kids before they fall asleep.Making them so excited and inspired, it's truly my favorite quality time."

"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."

"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

"This world's a bubble."

"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."