One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin. Mark Twain
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
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Benjamin Spock
Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher.
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Jennifer Griffin
Remember, nothing is ever created or destroyed. Therefore, unresolved emotional pain from childhood does not dissolve by itself. It sits waiting to be declared, and a child is the ultimate vehicle of expression. In order to transform the energy into something positive, the pain must...
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Anonymous
A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.
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Ben Sasse
If you want to know about sex don't ask your parents. They don't have any and know nothing about it. Find out yourself
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
More Quotes By Mark Twain
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
