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“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
― Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages
― Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.”
― Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
― Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“Speak to all people as though they are the wisest, gentlest, most beautiful beings on Earth; for what they believe, they become.”
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“In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I will tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”
― In Watermelon Sugar
― In Watermelon Sugar
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
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