"I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own."

-- Adele Faber

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Experts Quotes

“After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.”
“Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.”
“But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.”
“Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.”
“I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.”

Source : Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.45, U of Minnesota Press
“When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.”

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