#rent

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ↗

— Aristotle

#poverty #revolution #society #parenting

To be me is to be different... ↗

— Robert Fanney

#left-out #lonely #luthiel #self #dreams

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#children #parent #parents #dreams

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ↗

— Rebecca West

#been #call #differentiate #doormat #express

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough? ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#childhood #children #parenting #play #miracles

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#parenting #teaching #parenting

Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own. ↗

— Kim John Payne

#independence

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. ↗

— James McBride

#inspirational #money #parenting #religion #education

He sighed. "You want to live in your church, going about your life as if you're like everyone else." "So?" "You aren't. And because of that, someday you're probably going to find yourself in a position where your choices will have an impact far beyond what you see right now. And when that happens, I want you to remember what it's like to ride through the woods on horseback under a night sky with no moon and nothing stronger than you are. I want you to know so you will fight for it. So that my children will know of it. You have to keep the demons where they are, Rachel. No one else can do it. You won't fight for us unless you know. Let me show you what you're fighting for. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#rachel #trent #life

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#different #i #laugh #me #same