"Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation."
17
"First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see."
6
"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks."
11
"Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance."
7
"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be."
6
"I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me."
9
"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
6
"If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden."
7
"Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse."
8
"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
3
"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves."
6
"We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry."
5
"I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well."
6
"Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early."
6
"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."
8
"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."
6
"Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
9
"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."
6
"The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction."
6
"A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one."
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