Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you?

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People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

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Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. ― Bob Marley

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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. - Marianne Williamson

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Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

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Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain. - Elizabeth McCracken

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We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. ― Christopher Isherwood

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All grown-ups were once children but only few of them remember it.

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Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

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