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A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.Shannon L. Alder
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If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.Emma Donoghue
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I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own, " he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine."" Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.Shannon Hale
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Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.Criss Jami
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The worst thing in life is having parents that always stand against you and never with you. They discourage you, instill fear in you, hold you back, push you down and never encourage you to fly forward. When I have kids, they'll already be born with propellers with added wings. Even if one tells me they want to go learn how to ride lions in Africa, if their heart is driving that desire, I'd say "DO IT".If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live. I'd rather my kid die with a wild fire in his/her heart than with a malfunctioning or drained out fuse. Always allow your kids to keep humming with dreams and ideas that fuel their passions. Never tell them something is impossible. If you have a really strong determined kid, they'll go out there killing themselves trying to do the unachievable just to prove you wrong. And if you have a weak kid, they'll give up on life and settle for bagging Cokes and potato chips at your local grocery store.Suzy Kassem
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To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and arrogance prevent them from doing so. Therefore, they will always remain ignorant. Those on the right path to Truth are extremely heart-driven and childlike in their quest, always asking questions, always wanting to understand and know everything – and are not afraid to admit they don't know something. However, every truth seeker does need to breakdown their ego first to see Truth. If the mind is in the way, the heart won't see anything.Suzy Kassem
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The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.Criss Jami
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To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.Suzy Kassem
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Dads. It’s time to show our sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl should expect be treated. It’s time to show forgiveness and compassion. It’s time to show our children empathy. It’s time to break social norms and teach a healthier way of life! It’s time to teach good gender roles and to ditch the unnecessary ones. Does it really matter if your son likes the color pink? Is it going to hurt anybody? Do you not see the damage it inflicts to tell a boy that there is something wrong with him because he likes a certain color? Do we not see the damage we do in labeling our girls “tom boys” or our boys “feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?.Dan Pearce
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Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.Dan Pearce
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Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.Dan Pearce
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Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we’d like. It’s time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It’s time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It’s time to take joy in everything that our kids are.Dan Pearce
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Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?Dan Pearce
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Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that! ?” or “how many times have I told you… .Dan Pearce
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Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.Dan Pearce
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There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.Darnell Lamont Walker
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Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.Anthony Liccione
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.Cormac McCarthy
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The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though..Ramez Naam
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For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they–unlike most human beings–have the means of production, and human beings, because they–unlike all companies–have the means of reproduction.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many millions of pregnancies–many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child–were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.Patricia Robin Woodruff
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Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.Amit Kalantri
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Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.Amit Kalantri
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I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.Kamand Kojouri
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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.Nicholas Sparks
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.Richard Dawkins
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I don't know where to start, " one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down. .Anne Lamott
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We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.Suzy Kassem
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You can be a sincere person devoting yourself to your husband child or boss, but your sincerity cannot and will not, fill the gap in your knowledge about your life purposeSunday Adelaja
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The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when you look into another’s eyes and see innocence, you find it in yourself.Dragos Bratasanu
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We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.Chris Burkmenn
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My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - ""I am NOT naming our child Buford...Cassandra Clare
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She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.Wendy Corsi Staub
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My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading. .Anne Fadiman
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I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.Anne Fadiman
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I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.Alberto Manguel
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There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.Mizuki Nomura
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As a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writerNayyirah Waheed
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A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her body serves as a medicine cabinet for her infant. From her milk she can nourish and heal her own child from a variety of ailments. And though women come in a wide assortment as vast as the many different types of flowers and birds, she is to reflect divinity in her essence, care and wisdom. God created a woman's heart to be a river of love, not to become a killing machine.Suzy Kassem
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Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.Stephen M. Irwin
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Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come.Ljupka Cvetanova
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If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love – poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.Suzy Kassem
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In all of your living, don't forget to live.Ricky Maye
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A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.Israelmore Ayivor
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Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any accountSunday Adelaja
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Both positive and negative thinking can be formed in a childSunday Adelaja
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If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the futureSunday Adelaja
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If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteemSunday Adelaja
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The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinkingSunday Adelaja
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A child is not to blame for being immersed in a certain environment and handed down complexesSunday Adelaja
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When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the childSunday Adelaja
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There is an hidden energy in a child that works in all areas of growth and developmentSunday Adelaja
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All that a child needs is a great love.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.Kamand Kojouri
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Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.Kamand Kojouri
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The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.Rebecca McNutt
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Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.James C. Dobson
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The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.Kamand Kojouri
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HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be like killing family? Wouldn't it be making some other mother grieve? So I didn't kill him, but if I had, I might have saved Hector's child. Dead or damned, that's the choice we make. Either you men kill us and are honored for it, or we women kill you and are damned for it. Dead or damned. Women don't have to make choices like that in Hades. There is no love there, nothing to betray. .Sheri S. Tepper
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In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.Bamigboye Olurotimi
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Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps. Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance. Ugly is not the absence of beauty. Uglyis the inability to identify it. The inability to be surprised by it. It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it. Beauty is simplythe manifestation oflove.Kamand Kojouri
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The Child Christ lives on from generation to generation in the poets, very often the frailest of men but men whose frailty is redeemed by a child's unworldliness, by a child's delight in loveliness, by the spirit of wonder. Christ was a poet, and all through His life the Child remains perfect in Him. It was the poet, the unworldly poet, who was King of the invisible kingdom; the priests and rulers could not understand that. The poets understand it, and they, too, are kings of the invisible kingdom, vassal kings of the Lord of Love, and their crowns are crowns of thorns indeed. .Caryll Houselander
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The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. Da dum Da dum Da dum Have you ever heard the sound a blessing makes? This is it. The first thing I ever saw was only one hundred and eighty days after I was conceived. It was a bright light soft like clouds warm like candles. Have you ever seen the colour of a blessing? This is it. The first time I ever suffered was in the three thousand and sixty seconds after I was born. I listened for her heartbeat. I searched for her light. I cried for the first time until she was born. Have you ever known a blessing? A twin is it. .Kamand Kojouri
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A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.Kilroy J. Oldster
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When sighs are hypnotized by sorrow Happy moments you need to borrow From a little child or from a bird Who has the wild freedom of soul: stirred!Munia Khan
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KINGDOM OF THE WOMBFrom her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.And from seed to dust There is ONE soul above all others --That you must always show patience, respect, and trust And this woman is your mother. And when your soul departs your body And your deeds are weighed against the feather There is only one soul who can save yours And this woman is your mother. And when the heart of the universe Asks her hair and mind, Whether you were gentle and kind to her Her heart will be forced to remain silent And her hair will speak freely as a separate entity, Very much like the seaweed in the sea --It will reveal all that it has heard and seen. This woman whose heart has seen yours, First before anybody else in the world, And whose womb had opened the door For your eyes to experience light and more --Is your very own MOTHER.So, no matter whether your mother has been cruel, Manipulative, abusive, mentally sick, or simply childish How you treat her is the ultimate test. If she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right way With simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness. And always remember, That the queen in the Creator's kingdom, Who sits on the throne of all existence, Is exactly the same as in yours. And her name is, T H E DIVINE MOTHER. .Suzy Kassem
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Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment… She’d been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn’t her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn’t she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids’ book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.Maile Meloy
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If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb againMunia Khan
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I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled with precious innocenceMunia Khan