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.

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) 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.

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you’re in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don’t control.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

They that make laws must not break them.

Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.