Most parents think that the commands they give their children are merely suggestions wrapped with lovingness. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.- Buddha

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watching his son in quick pulses of attention. ― Thomas Pynchon

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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The handy thing about being a father is that the historical standard is so pitifully low. ― Michael Chabon

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We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved. ― C. JoyBell C.

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In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.' - Phil Collins

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