A true legacy can be recognized by the fact that it will be left standing when everything else that has attacked it is not. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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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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I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.- Dwayne Johnson

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And his expression, now. I realized right then -- how disappointed you could be when you were all in with someone. When you cared so deeply. How your heart could break, so precisely and quickly. ― Maurene Goo

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We don't lose ourselves in parenthood. We find parts of ourselves we never knew existed. ― L.R. Knost

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Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. What you are will show in what you do. — Thomas Davidson

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.- Mitch Hedberg

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

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