“If you think it should have been so easy for your parents to have met your needs, then meet your own needs and create the life of your dreams. Do what they could not. Be the change you desired throughout your life.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Most expectations of children are unrealistic and ridiculous. Children are just learning how to ‘be’ in this world. To expect them to know what to do, or to expect them do things in a specific way, is a type of insane cruelty inflicted upon the child. Permit children to make mistakes and to explore life without criticism.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“In some respects, generations revolting against their parents result in resemblance to their grandparents.”
“There was something he liked and hated about seeing John Everly sitting just that way; something to always like and hate about seeing himself in his children. Please be like me. Please don't be like me. He couldn't figure it.”
Source: Children of Promise
“In Veksh," said Trishka, "our mothers teach us that there's a type of story called zejhasa, the braided path: a new tale that starts before the old tale has ended, and which could not exist alone. Every life is zejhasa. Before we are born, our mothers live their own stories, and when we are young, our existence is twined with theirs - small threads in a wider pattern. But as we grow, these threads begin to separate, forming new strands, new lives, new purposes. Our mothers' stories go on, enriched; but ours will always begin before theirs have ended.”
Source: An Accident of Stars
“Children, who want at all costs to have their way, are closest to God, for they want to exist.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Some mountains will seem too high because you are afraid to climb. Once you start moving forward, you will be surprised by the outcome.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Do people have a left mind he’d wondered? What’s the difference anyway?”
Source: The Adventures of George and Mabel: Based on an Almost... well, you know (The Adventures of George and Mabel: Based on an Almost
“Zara had two sisters, one of whom struggled with anorexia, and the other with depression, two conditions that Emira's mother believed black people didn't "get.”
“Most people who yell at children, or shame them for making a mistake, would never yell at or shame someone at work for making a mistake.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism