We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

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You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

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Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

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I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

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So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

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You can't blend in when you were born to stand out. — R. J. Palacio

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There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

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When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

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