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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."
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Personal Development

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

"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."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."
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Personal Development

"A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world."
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Personal Development

"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"
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Personal Development

"Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience."
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Personal Development

"Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant."
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"Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life."
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"The older the friendship, the stronger the trust."
Relationship

"You shouldn't ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer."
Awareness

"A happy man doesn't reconsider life."
Happiness

"In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an author who has an h-index = 2 obtained on the basis of two published papers of which each is cited twenty times is more influential than an author who has an h-index = 3 obtained on the basis of three published papers of which each is cited three times."
Influence

"Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge."
Education

"A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions " he observes, analyzes and contemplates."
Wisdom

"Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization."
Wisdom

"The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others."
Social

"Solving a complicated problem can be frustrating. You can have good problem solving skills, but sometimes a problem seems like it has no solution. Nevertheless, never give up."
Motivation

"In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of accumulating impressive amounts of knowledge within a relatively short period of time. Nevertheless, even the greatest genius possesses only a small fraction of all knowledge known by mankind. Finally, the following question arises: how large is all the existing knowledge in comparison to the space of ignorance?"
Knowledge
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