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.

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.

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.

You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You're more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out all the candles when the door cracks open.

Until you begin to sow yourself, ability, gifts, talent into that land God has called you into, prosperity will then be yours

Stop Dieting...Start Eating CUte

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.