“ I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love, to think in… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true in… Peter Gray
“ When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them. Lisa Bedrick
“ That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud. Christopher Bollen
“ To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's… Julia Glass
“ We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed, did not fo… Toni Maguire
“ What was she dreaming about, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, seeing her engrossed, as she stood there, with some thought of her own, so that she had to repeat the message twice––ask Mildred if Andrew, Miss Doyl… Virginia Woolf
“ A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take l… Anuradha Bhattacharyya
“ When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parent… Suzy Kassem
“ He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to f… Ayn Rand
“ This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a… Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have t… Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen... The desert is beautiful," the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand… Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ Never apologize for the good in your life. People who try to make you feel badly because you have been blessed are consumed by self-loathing. Wear your accomplishments proudly, be it your career, your… Carlos Wallace
“ Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi Jody West
