Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.

The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.

Mistakes are part of life. And yet, for some reason, most parents in this world, wish their children made no mistakes at all, or as little as possible.

If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children for that purpose.

It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on our children’s brains from as early as possible.

They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

America is one long expectoration.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.