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"I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults."
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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Personal Development
"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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Personal Development
"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."
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Personal Development
"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."
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Personal Development
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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Personal Development
"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
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Personal Development
"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."
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Personal Development
"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."
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Personal Development
"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."
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"The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect."
Growth
"The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness."
Wellness
"Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved."
Virtue
"My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do."
Parenting
"To be forgiven is to be loved."
Relationship
"When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose."
Psychology
"Shame derives its power from being unspeakable."
Psychology
"Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant."
Morality
"You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors."
Social
"I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure."
Parenting
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