"One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom."

-- Katrina Kenison

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Unique Quotes

“Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.”
“If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.”
“No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.”
“Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.”
“The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind...”

Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately”, p.43
“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”
“If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.”
“The whole point of team competition is to pick your teammates up,”

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