Best opposites & parent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”

“sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.”

Children Sometimes Parent Virtue Produce Opposites Faults Tendencies

Book:Works

Source: Works

“A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.”

Has Beens Moments Remember Sex Parent Born Loneliness Taught Anxiety Jokes Roots Opposites Forgotten Separation Attachment Dread Recalls Infant Toilets Abandonment Taught Us

Author:Jo Coudert

“There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.”

Mean Self Enough Use Parent Involved Protect Opposites Lame Overprotective

Book:The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

Source: The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

“The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.”

Years Children Made Facts Lying Parent Mistake Humorous Opposites Parenting Permit Funny Parenting Funny Parent Spacing

Book:Leaving the Surface

Source: Leaving the Surface

“When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”

Years Made Two Reality Wanted Parent Lessons Musician Opposites Guitar Singers Evening Two Years Depressing Songwriters Singer Songwriters Wednesday Classical Guitar Most Depressing

Author:Andrew Garfield

“My parents are opposites who balance each other out.”

Parent Balance Opposites

Author:Tamara Ecclestone

“Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.”

Years Children Has Beens Matter Done Lasts Sex Parent Differences Issues Environment Pieces Research Opposites Responsible Raised Stable What Matters Children And Parents

Author:Mary Cheney

“Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.”

“My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.”

Want Giving Kind Problem Wanted Felt Parent Growing Up Growing Fronts Cry Okay Opposites Satisfaction Gross Polar Opposites

Author:Lucas Hedges

“I believe the more difficult a child is, the more I want that child. But I won't take a child until the parent brings him to us. So it is just the opposite - we get the ones that no one else will take. We get sawdust, and we have to make boards out of it.”

Want Believe Children I Believe Parent Difficult Opposites Boards Sawdust

Author:Marva Collins

“My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.”

Parent Imagine Mines Opposites

Author:Jane Pauley

“Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.”

Parent Opposites Parenting Contrary Punishment

Author:Haim Ginott

“You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage yourself – either through some genetic inheritance or because you’d learnt from example? But it doesn’t seem to work like that. So perhaps you need the opposite example – to see mistakes in order not to make them yourself. Except this would mean that the best way for parents to ensure their children have happy marriages would be to have unhappy ones themselves. So what’s the answer?”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Mean Children Seems Would Be Order Parent Answers Mistake Example Ought Opposites Average Unhappy Best Way Inheritance Happy Marriage

Author:Julian Barnes

“I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.”

Hands Eye Mother Father Parent Opposites Moved Parenting Contrary

Book:Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

Source: Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

“Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?”

“Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.”

Needs Writing Children Parent Simple Leader Cases Teacher Goes On Becoming Opposites Clean Simplicity Track Ease Priests Slate Unending Clean Slate

Author:Rajneesh

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