"Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole."

-- Frank Pittman

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #People Quotes

“Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.”
“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.”

Source : Jean Anouilh “Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”
“Man is more than half of nature's treasure.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.5
“It is better to laugh than cry.”
“[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.”
“The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.”
“I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.”
“Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.”

Source : John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.109

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