"Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child."

-- Jean Sasson

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.”
“My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.”

Source : "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview With Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.
“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”

Source : Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”
“Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.”
“Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.”
“Nothing misleads people like the truth.”
“Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds...”
“To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.”

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