#dre

Not-leaving: An act of trust and love, often deciphered by children. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#love #trust #love

For anyone who feels lost in their own way, going back to who you are and what you love or moving forward to whoever you are meant to be or meant to love, is the purpose of being lost. We lose ourselves, so we can find out who we truly are. And when by fate we do, we discover the best version of ourselves. ↗

— Joanne Crisner

#inspirational #loss #lost #inspirational

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#children #family #parenting #parents #love

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully at the right time. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#family #parenting #love

Love has this in common with qualms, that it turns sour through the reflections on it and the return visits that one makes to it in order to deliver oneself from it. ↗

— Madeleine Gide

#distance #love #marriage #love

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. ↗

— Faye Snyder

#children #inspirational #parenting #psychology #inspirational

Make your problems become opportunities instead of obstacles. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#author #goodreads #google #inspirational #life

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#enjoy #future #happens #neither #nor

We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding. ↗

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#marriage

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream. ↗

— Chris Brown

#artist #basically #concerned #determination #dream