#pare

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. ↗

— Malcolm Mclaren

#any #anything #art #art school #be prepared

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#color #did #doing #film #hate

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#arnold #holding #i #i think #more

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to. ↗

— Keifer Thompson

#listen #parents #rebel #want #you

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#motherhood #parenting #parenting

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#security

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#learning #life #mistakes #nature #parenting

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#love #parents #void #life

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories. ↗

— Myron Uhlberg

#father #memories #parents #love

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#longing #love #parenthood #love