Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.