“There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.” ShouldFirstsChildrenLongEnoughDreamBigsGrowsForgetGrowing UpMessagesAdultsAccomplishNever ForgetBig Things Author:Mardy Grothe
“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenTurnsGrowsParentDarkGrowing UpColorDrugMessagesDressesSuicideMajorityAlcoholCommitEtcDrugs And AlcoholDark Colors Author:Bernie Siegel
“All over the world today, many girls still get the idea that their bodies are somehow not as good as a boy's body. These girls - who later grow up to be women with girls of their own - get the message that they are weaker in spirit, not worth educating, somehow cursed because of their menstrual cycle, and so forth.” WorldStillsIdeasBodyTodaySpiritGirlGrowsBoysGrowing UpMessagesCyclesWorld TodayCursed Author:Christiane Northrup
“Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are sent the message in countless ways that they, too, are going to prison one way or another. We cannot build healthy, functioning schools within a context where there is no funding available because it's going to building prisons and police forces.” WayKidsSchoolForceCommunityGrowing UpGrowingBuildingHealthyMessagesPolicePrisonAvailableOne WayLoved OnesFundingCyclingPolice Force Author:Michelle Alexander
“I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.” HardMomentsGrowsSoundBornGrowing UpMessagesEvidenceConnectionsClaimsAffairHearingDespiteGenesDrowningNoisyFondness Book:Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony