"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."

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Source : David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”

David Elkind

#Choices Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.”
“Say what you think / Love who you love.”

Source : Song: Follow Your Arrow, Album: Same Trailer Different Park, 2013
“If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.”
“I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.”
“The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.”
“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
“A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.”

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