A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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