Parent Advice Quotes

“The fantasy of life;
When I was a child, I said ‘I can’t wait to grow up’.
When I was adult, I said ‘I miss childhood adventures’.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Do all the work you while you still have strength.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“If you never love, then you never lived.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I adhered to this strategy right up to Mum's death, sharing experiences that I probably should have kept to myself, telling tales of drug-taking and STDs over a cup of tea at the kitchen table, graduating to infertility and marriage breakdown as I got older. There was never any condemnation from Mum, although she did gasp and shake her head sometimes. Whenever my life collapsed – which was often – I'd move back in with her, and no matter my age or what I was up to, she always put a hot-water bottle in my bed at night. [...]
Mum advised, supported and steered me through my many disasters. Whether I'd said something stupid to someone at a party, made a mistake at work, fallen out with a colleague, was lonely, applying for a job, in a difficult relationship or spiked with drugs at a nightclub, she helped me make sense of the situation and find a way forward.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“Generosity is an act of love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Falling in love is a beautiful wonder.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Child, love. Live! Love! Love! Live! Love all the parts of you you'll be tempted to hate. Live the life of your dreams.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!