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"There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal."
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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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"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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"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 unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
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"When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope."
Life
"Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged."
Wisdom
"And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid."
Relationship
"It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how."
Relationship
"I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with."
Survival
"Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?"
Mythology
"Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you."
Life
"I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways."
Life
"I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action."
Motivation
"That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is."
Society
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