“Then you fall into this area of numbness I call “I don’t care about all this stuff, I’m going to live or die, but not in fear.”
Source: Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the
same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to
adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the
spaces between fences.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I never regretted not having children, or, better said: I never regretted not inflicting myself on a child. Children need too much love, and despite what everyone likes to say, love is not free. Love hurts. It's action, sacrifice, hard, costly, and I was...I am....a selfish man.”
Source: The Big Finish
“Beat him until he softens. Lift his ragged body and raise him with your whiskey breath. Get him out alive. Watch from your grave as he beats his own child, because you beat him, because yours beat you, because his beat his, because his beat his...”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“If you have children or a spouse, you need to connect with them one-on-one every day.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You don’t find your purpose by searching for it — you build it by showing up, again and again, when it’s inconvenient.”
“Tą dieną man pirmą dingtelėjo, kad suaugusieji yra tarpusavyje sudarę sąmokslą prieš vaikus. Užtenka jiems pasakyti žodį, ir vaikas pasmerktas. Tada jau niekas tau nebepadės: nei tavo galios ašaros, bei nuoširdžiausi prisiekinėjimai. Suaugusieji paprasčiausiai nekreipia į tai dėmesio...”
Source: Žuvys nepažįsta savo vaikų
“Es imposible criar sin comprender que somos un ejemplo. Que las relaciones sanas se basan en el respeto y no en el miedo. Que nosotros no somos seres humanos que todo lo saben, sino que cada día, aprendemos un poquito más.”
Source: Hoy no es siempre: Guía práctica para una crianza respetuosa
“Children are gifts from God.”
“To end the cycle of generational loneliness, new parents need to make connecting familiar and to set boundaries around technology for all family members.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism