Milton Sapirstein famous quotes

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Home #Parenting #Neurosis

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Children #Four #Twenties

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Mother #Fiction

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Assumption #Impulse #Persons

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Beauty #Emotional #Way

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Parent #Society #Kind

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Night #Goes On #Moments

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.