"Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable."

Family, Children

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"Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable."

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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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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."

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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

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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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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

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"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn't comprehend. Don't ask for advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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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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