"All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves."

-- Andrew Solomon

#Children Quotes #Self Quotes #Parent Quotes

“God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.”
“Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.”
“I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?”
“I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.”

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
“The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.”
“We see things as we are, not as they are.”

Source : Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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