"We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through."

-- Judith Viorst

#Depressing Quotes #Children Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.”
“In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.”
“I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.”

Source : "Charlie Puth's Reason For Being Obsessed With Alicia Keys Will Make You Say, 'Heck Yes'". Interview With Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. September 7, 2016.
“Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.”

Source : Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”
“Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.”

Source : Mark W. Smith (2008). “The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy 2008: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left This Election Year”, p.81, Regnery Publishing
“If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.”
“Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.”
“I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.”

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