"The childâ€™s parents are not his makers but his guardians."

-- Maria Montessori

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Guardian Quotes

“The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a manâ€™s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.”
“Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.”
“Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.”

Source : Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.
“Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.”
“Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.”
“Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. [...] Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.”

Source : "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.
“I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.”
“I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.”

Source : Interview with Oliver Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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