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“When parents die, they leave behind legacy.
When children die, they leave behind shattered dreams,
which pierce your whole “being” like sharp pieces of broken glass".
– Neena Verma, "Grief ~ Growth ~ Grace – A Sacred Pilgrimage", Page 13”
Source: GRIEF GROWTH GRACE
“When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.”
Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
“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
“WHEN PARENTS GROW OLD. Let them grow old with the same love that they let you grow ... let them speak and tell repeated stories with the same patience and interest that they heard yours as a child ... let them overcome, like so many times when they let you win ... let them enjoy their friends just as they let you … let them enjoy the talks with their grandchildren, because they see you in them ... let them enjoy living among the objects that have accompanied them for a long time, because they suffer when they feel that you tear pieces of this life away ... let them be wrong, like so many times you have been wrong and they didn’t embarrass you by correcting you ... LET THEM LIVE and try to make them happy the last stretch of the path they have left to go; give them your hand, just like they gave you their hand when you started your path!”
“When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.”
“When parents, in the belief that they are doing the right thing, trample underfoot some ideal that lies latent in the heart of their child they cause, more often than not, to germinate in its place disillusionment, hatred, vice; it is fortunate indeed if the existence thus turned awry does not degrade into a life of crime, instead of one of calm content and universal respect.”
Source: The Master Masochist: Tales of a Sadistic Mistress
“When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.”
“When parents openly communicate about money matters, they empower their children to develop a healthy understanding of financial concepts, fostering a positive relationship with money.”
Source: Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips, and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age
“When parents orchestrate their children's circumstances, they produce immature adults.”
Source: Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart
“When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.”
Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
“When parents put their faith above their child's well being, they fail as a parents.”
Source: Stories Of Jivavarta
“When parents say, "I wish my child did not have autism," what they’re really saying is, "I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead." Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces.”
“When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.”
“When parents talk about their pasts, the stories start to stick in your head. But the memories that you inherit look different from the now-world, and different from your own memories, too. Like they have a color all their own. I don’t mean sepia-toned or something. My parents aren’t even that old. I just mean that there is something particular about their glow.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“When parents want you to do really well academically, they want to avoid you getting into anything that would distract you - you know, rock and roll music, or really serious, long novels that you get so absorbed in, you forget to study.”
“When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.”
“When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!”
“When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.”
Source: Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
“When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.”
“When Paris was changing, when Spain was in civil war, when Los Angeles was on fire, when drugs decimated her city - what did people do? They made art about it.”
Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last
“When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.”
“When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“When...passion begins to subside, which it assuredly will do, and yield--oftentimes too late--to more sober reflections, it serves to evince that lost is too dainty a food to live on -alone.-...More permanent & genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to Armand-Charles Tuffin, Marquis de La Rouërie, August 10, 1786.”
Source: Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
“When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.”
Source: Occult principles of health and healing
“When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.”
Source: Master Georgie
“When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.”
“When passion is stretched too far, it causes war. When passion is stretched moderately far, it creates art,”
“When passion is your compass, treasures will be found”
“When passion rules, she never rules wisely.”
“When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.”
Source: The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]
“When pastors ask me if their people will buy this vision, I ask them two questions: "Have they bought into your leadership?" If they haven't, don't ever try to pass on a vision. Second, "Have you processed this vision correctly?"”
“When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all.”
“When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.”
“When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get obsessed and addicted. Addiction is the problem. Then it is like a disease. You cannot love anybody except your child - this is addiction. Then you will be in misery. Your child can die; then there is no possibility for your love to flow. Even if your child is not going to die, he will grow. And the more he grows, the more he will become independent. And then there will be pain. Every mother suffers, every father suffers.”
“When patents are granted, it creates opportunities for a few to profit in service of many. When patents expire, it creates opportunities for many to each profit in service of a few.”
“When patience is the only option, then journey should be joyful.”
“When patients tell me of the mild anxiety that comes with them to each session, I no longer think of it as a problem, but instead as an indication of their aliveness at the brink of the unknown.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
“When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.”
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.”
“When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.”
“When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.”
“When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.”
“When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two representatives of humanity faced off, one of the best and one of the worst. One lived for prosperity on earth, the other didn’t. One now lives in prosperity in heaven, the other doesn’t. We remember both men for what they truly were, which is why we name our sons Paul and our dogs Nero.”
“When Paxton was a teenager, her friends had even envied her relationship with her mother. Everyone knew that neither Paxton nor Sophia scheduled anything on Sunday afternoons, because that was popcorn-and-pedicures time, when mother and daughter sat in the family room and watched sappy movies and tried out beauty products. And Paxton could remember her mother carrying dresses she'd ordered into her bedroom, almost invisible behind tiers of taffeta, as they'd planned for formal dances. She'd loved helping Paxton pick out what to wear. And her mother had exquisite taste. Paxton could still remember dresses her mother wore more than twenty-five years ago. Imprinted in her memory were shiny blue ones, sparkly white ones, wispy rose-colored ones.”
Source: The Peach Keeper
“When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.”
Source: Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart : Translation and Commentary of Imam Mawlud's Matharat Al-Qulub
“When peace dwells within, the beauty of life shines without.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.”