"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."

-- Erich Fromm

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“Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.”
“When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.”

Source : "The flower and the glory". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.
“The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.”
“We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.”
“God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.”
“Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.”
“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”
“In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.”

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