"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

-- Chanakya

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“What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.”
“And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.”

Source : Florinda Donner (1991). “Being-in-dreaming”, Harpercollins
“If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd
“It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.”
“Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.”
“I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.”

Source : Taliesin, “The Spoils Of Annwfn”
“I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.”

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