Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
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Walter Mosley
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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Mitch Albom
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,...
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Douglas Adams
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
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C.s. Lewis
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
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Jandy Nelson
More Quotes By Andrew Solomon
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to...
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true, " and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are...
