Quotes From "So Much More" By Anna Sofia Botkin

Whoever trains the children controls the future. A chain is...
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Whoever trains the children controls the future. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a society will only ever be as strong as the families in it. Anna Sofia Botkin
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As Lenin put it, "Through the schools we will transform the old world.. the final victory will belong to the schools.. the final sketch plan of the socialist society will belong to the schools." So the Frankfurt School targeted and took control of the teachers' colleges in order to control what was being taught to children..young teachers are forced to go through possibly the most rigorous courses of indoctrination available in any universities. Anna Sofia Botkin
I have too much doubt. It’s the bastard child of...
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I have too much doubt. It’s the bastard child of fear. I hate fear. So doubt sidles up next to determination in my heart. It doesn’t outweigh it. They coexist. Kim Holden
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The person you’ve always wanted to be. Some days your heart will be in it, and some days you’ll fake it, but eventually it will become a habit and without thinking about it, you will be changed anew. A new attitude. A new outlook. A new perspective. The human mind is a wonderful thing to grant us that kind of change. Kim Holden
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I don’t want to be my limitations. I don’t want to be my pain. I don’t want to be my embarrassment. Kim Holden
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Every generation has its defining challenge. Ours is the systematic annihilation of the biblical family."~ Doug Phillips Anna Sofia Botkin
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Because that’s what parents do, without even thinking about it, that’s what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when they’re adults no one can extinguish them. They’ll burn so bright they can’t be brought down. Kim Holden
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Sometimes I’m irrational, I know I am, but even irrational thought feels very, very real when you’re in the middle of shit. Kim Holden
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Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort Kim Holden
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And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement. Kim Holden
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A hug is a display of love that begins on the physical end of the spectrum but bleeds into the emotional end of the spectrum if you let it, if you give into it. It’s the most innocent, pure form of physical human connection there is. It only takes two willing people, who don’t even have to know each other, to participate. Two willing people who want that exchange. It’s so easy, but there are people who never get them. People who never get them, ” she repeats softly, it’s a confession. Kim Holden