"Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?"

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Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Consenting Adult”, p.80, Open Road Media

Laura Z. Hobson

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Damage Quotes

“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
“If I didn't have to worry about money, I would be doing the same thing I'm doing now. Additionally, I would maintain other creative outlets -- glassblowing and woodworking. I would operate a salon-format venue geared towards deviation; a destabilization of the audience/rock star dynamic.”
“A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.”

Source : Susan Hill (2010). “Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home”, p.2, Profile Books
“While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.”
“It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.”

Source : Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press
“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”

Source : Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1952). “Rashomon: and other stories”
“Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”
“Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.”

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