“When i get into the best college in America, he is cutting radishes for dinner. I have just found out ten minutes ago. I am elated. He puts down the knife to shake my hand and then goes back to cutting radishes.”
Source: Chemistry
“An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“My parents are humans too. This has been one of my greatest awakenings in adulthood: my parents being regular people, too. They have baggage and losses, grown up in imperfect homes with imperfect families just as I did. Life hasn’t been easy on either of them between the mixture of poor decisions and bad breaks; this world lacks perfection for us all.”
Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
“If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.”
Source: A Dark Time in America
“No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line.”
Source: A Dark Time in America
“Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.”
“Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“It’s a mistake to believe that they (parents) are responsible for their children’s best future. This responsibility is on their children, and that’s the message they should be conveying to their children on a daily basis.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“Parents were good to us, gave us a lot, took care for us when we couldn’t have taken care for ourselves, wanted the best for us, continue to care about us and our future, but none of it is good enough a reason to fulfil their dreams/ do everything in order to make them happy/ provide them with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes