“If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves.”
“Boredom is not the enemy of childhood. It’s the birthplace of imagination, persistence, and quiet strength.”
Source: Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience
“True strength isn’t in never crying. It’s in learning how to name the storm inside and stay present through it.”
Source: Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience
“Children mirror our habits. They don’t learn balance from lectures—but from watching us choose it.”
Source: Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience
“It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.”
Source: Man Walks Into a Room
“I spent a lot of time in the past year trying to work out the trick of writing a true story about love.
I think I may have been coming at the whole thing a little sideways.
You see, it’s awfully hard to live a true love story when you’re focusing your attention on the love story you want to write.”
“I DON’T HAVE THE HABIT OF REMAKING, I HAVE THE HABIT OF REWRITING, SAY IT HISTORY OR VICTORY”
“Don't be afraid to rewrite your story; you hold the pen.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“Cuando es verdadera, cuando nace de la necesidad de decir, a la voz humana no hay quien la pare. Si le niegan la boca, ella habla por las manos, o por los ojos, o por los poros, o por donde sea. Porque todos, toditos, tenemos algo que decir a los demás, alguna cosa que merece ser por los demás celebrada o perdonada.”
“Acceptance can transform but if you accept in order to transform, it is not acceptance. It is like loving. Love seeks no reward but when given freely comes back a hundredfold. He who loses his life finds it. He who accepts, changes.”