"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

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"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

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"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

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"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

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"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

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"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations."

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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

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"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

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"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."

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"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."

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"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."

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"A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."

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"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

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"All that is transitory is but a metaphor."

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

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"You can't, if you can't feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You'll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other's scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration's to your taste,But you'll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart's space."

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