I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ― Malcolm X

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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

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Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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