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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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Personal Development
"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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Personal Development
"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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Personal Development
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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Personal Development
"Children are angels."
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Personal Development
"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
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Personal Development
"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."
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"A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes."
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Personal Development
"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."
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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
Time
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
Thought
"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."
Thought
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
Family
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
Nothing
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
Creativity
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