"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Family, Children, Independence, Gifts, Responsibility

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"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

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"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"

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"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."

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"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."

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"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

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"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."

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"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

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"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."

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"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."

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"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece."

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