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John Steinbeck
“We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.”
John Steinbeck

Madeleine L'Engle
“In a reverse way, sharing my mother's long, slow dying consumes my creative energy. I manage one angry and bitter story, and feel better for it, but most of me is involved in Mother's battle. Watching her slowly being snuffed out is the opposite of pregnancy, depleting instead of fulfilling: I am exhausted by conflict.”
Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown that misery comes at last to the healthy man, the end of his life is sorrow.”
Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

Otto von Bismarck
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.”
Otto von Bismarck

“All parents must overcome fears in the process of sending their children out into the indifferent, sometimes perilous world. We assess the dangers for our kids when they're young, and begin giving them the skills to make their own assessments as they grow older, but when they hit their teenage years, the rules seem to blur. We become less trusting of our instincts and acquired parenting skills, moving uncertainly between the urge to protect them and the desire to let them blossom. Adolescence is a dislocating time for parents and children alike. Unlike babies, who come squalling into the world in need of everything, teenagers bounce uncomfortably, and often angrily between periods of adult-like self-sufficiency and childlike dependency. We as parents are equally as ill-equipped to handle the fluctuations. Some parents respond to inevitable clashes and the resentments that follow with avoidance, retreating from their teens. At the very moment they should engage, at the very moment their teenagers secretly want them to be involved in their lives, they pull back. I was determined not to do this.”
James Campbell

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