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#1

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

tags: parenting, unconditional-love

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#2

“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”
― Bette Davis

tags: parenting

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#3

“Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.”
― Tom Upton, Tiny Voices

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#4

“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: accountability, friends, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose, responsibility, success

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#5

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility

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#6

“Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: caused, life, problems, responsibility, truth

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#7

“‎With adulthood comes responsibility.”
― Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy

tags: adulthood, lydon, mary, responsibility, simonsen

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#8

“At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: blame-game, life-lessons, responsibility

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#9

“The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.”
― Judith Martin

tags: growing-up, taxes, teenagers

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#10

“Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

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#11

“Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.”
― Jen Lancaster, Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

tags: growing-up

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#12

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women

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#13

“I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: affirmation, fathers, pride, sons

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#14

“Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: hesse, life, siddhartha, uncertainty, unity

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