Angi

“All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“The only place where we can exercise our freedom of choice is in the present.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice

“Do I live my life according to my own deepest truths, or in order to fulfill someone else’s expectations? How much of what I have believed and done is actually my own and how much has been in service to a self-image I originally created in the belief it was necessary to please my parents?”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale