"I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them."

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Barry Humphries

#Secret Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Playtime and nature time are important not only for learning but also for health and development.”
“I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.”
“Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live.”
“I was very lucky. My neck hurt and I went to my doctor, who was kind of hip, and he said it was stress-caused and that I needed to learn how to meditate. So I learned how to do Transcendental Meditation.”
“New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.”
“All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.”
“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
“Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential”

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