"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."

Cervantes, Miguel De on parents and parenting
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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

Bloom, Allan on parents and parenting
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up."

Bishop, Russell on parents and parenting
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"There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong."

Gardner, Robert on parents and parenting   

"Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites."

Shaw, George Bernard on parasites   

"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."

Elton, Ben on parasites   

"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."

Bronte, Charlotte on parasites
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"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Waitley, Denis on parents and parenting
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"If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job."

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting   

"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

Steinem, Gloria on parents and parenting
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"The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?"

Schumpeter, Joseph A. on parents and parenting   

"He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief."

Proverb, Jewish on parents and parenting   

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness."

Priestley, J. B. on parents and parenting   

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy on parents and parenting
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"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."

Morrison, Jim on parents and parenting
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"Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

Levine, Michael on parents and parenting
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"Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success."

Lebowitz, Fran on parents and parenting   

"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation."

Koop, C. Everett on parents and parenting
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"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him."

Henker, Dr. on parents and parenting
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"Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't."

Hendren, L. L. on parents and parenting   

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on parents and parenting   

"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."

Paine, Thomas on appreciation
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"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."

Mandino, Og on appreciation
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"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built."

Allen, James on appreciation
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"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on appreciation
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."

Conklin, Robert on appreciation
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"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

Unknown, Source on appreciation
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"There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them."

Ringer, Robert J. on appreciation
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"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."

Rutledge, Archibald on appreciation
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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."

Repplier, Agnes on absurdity
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"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed."

Angelou, Maya on god
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

Repplier, Agnes on happiness
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"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

Repplier, Agnes on irony   

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship."

Angelis, Barbara De on commitment
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"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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