“I've been crying for eight hours now, and he hasn't even noticed."
"I know," said Julie. "When Alexandra was two I cried for eight months and she never noticed.”
Source: Heartburn
“When parents, family, friends, or teachers behave in hurtful ways it is because they have experienced deep hurt and negative conditioning within them.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children. She understood by now misunderstandings were to be expected- she had had several with teachers - and often children and grown-ups did not agree, but things somehow worked out. For a grown-up to actually dislike a child and try to shame her, she was sure had to be wrong, very, very wrong.”
Source: Ramona Forever
“The more emotionally available a caregiver, the greater the sense of safety in a child. This leads to a familiarity with healthy relationships.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“The birth of a baby is the beginning of a journey of discovery of who this new being is, what they will embody, and how they shall live in relationship with their family, peers, communities, and the environment.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Sometimes what we see as an instance of a toddler crying the toddler sees as it reasoning.”
“Todo traidor es un hombre que creyó en algo.
Lo que varía es en qué”
Gabriel Ganiarov”
“Barack was now surrounded by people whose job was to treat him like a precious gem. It sometimes felt like a throwback to some lost era...”
Source: Michelle Obama - Quotes to Live By
“You are because of your mother. Rest into the service that your mother expressed to you, no matter how imperfect it may have seemed. Give yourself permission to retrieve and receive her Love. See her in your vision as the one who cared for you, cleaned up after you, fed you, and held you as a baby as much as life allowed her to at that time.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“At Keramzin, I had a doll I made out of an old sock that I used to talk to whenever he was away hunting. Maybe that would make me feel better.’
‘You were an odd little girl.’
‘You have no idea. What did you and Tolya play with?’
‘The skulls of our enemies.”
Source: Siege and Storm