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"Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived."
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"This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind."
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Personal Development
"Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them."
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Personal Development
"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."
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Personal Development
"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
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Personal Development
"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
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Personal Development
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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Personal Development
"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
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Personal Development
"So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency."
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Personal Development
"When my son was a teenager, he would use the 'poker face' tactic when I was lecturing, nagging, or suggesting. As a parent, it was maddening because I could not read his reactions! His stoicism would sometimes deflate my efforts or make me surrender in laughter, changing the subject all together."
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Personal Development
"Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish."
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"Every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter."
Humor
"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
Literature
"She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life."
Love
"It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don't like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn't speak that language. They didn't learn it as children and they didn't manage to pick it up as adults, either."
Society
"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."
Freedom
"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"
Philosophy
"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
Love
"Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect."
Relationship
"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."
Relationship
"What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?"
Psychology
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