#ld

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. ↗

— Alice Miller

#better #child #empathy #even #grows

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ↗

— Alice Miller

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Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. ↗

— Alice Miller

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It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. ↗

— Alice Miller

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The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

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It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. ↗

— Alice Miller

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Barzul! ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #eldest #eragon #funny #humor

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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