Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everyb...
When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doi...
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
You haunt my days and dreams.