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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."

"Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies."

"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."

"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."

"A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects."

"Start working on your child's mind. Start building your child's character. Raise your child as a human being, instead of raising boys and girls. Raise human beings with the religion of love in their hearts. Raise human beings with the language of compassion on their lips. Raise human beings with the color of joy on their face. Raise human beings with the force of bravery in their nerves. And these brave conscientious souls with the flames of compassion in their hearts shall one day change the course of human history."

"The answer to the question 'How many children do you have?' and the one to the question 'How many children are you raising?' are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men's children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children."
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"Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them, they can be the greatest moments of our lives."

"Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?"

"It's time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It's time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It's time we give our kids a fighting chance."

"I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own."

"My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was the first one to tell me that I could do it. I am 30 years old, and I still find great power in my own dad telling me it's possible.I still find great power in my own dad telling me I can do it."

"I have learned that trying to control other people's opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness."

"Good fathers, and by that I mean real fathers who are there, have the ability to change almost every social problem we now find ourselves facing. I'd be assumptive enough to say that there isn't a single type of crime or a single problem so big that it couldn't be fixed or wiped out if fathers would just step up."

"One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into."

"I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes.I don't need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive.I don't need to starve myself of the good things of life to be healthy.And, I don't need to chase someone else's ideal of what I should be looking like."
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