"What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Mets Quotes

“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.”
“Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.”
“To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media â€“ which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now itâ€™s the people who are taking control.”
“So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.”

Source : Joan W. Blos (2013). “A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.”
“It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.”
“Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!”
“You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.”

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