If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test re...ality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other i...s family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the bond of love broke, the respect born of affection withered,... good feelings fled, and that man walked before me like any other, Good Friend, I imagine all this, think on days gone by and wonder why my heart hasn't cracked into a hundred bits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disap...pointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their p...leasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that I am letting my kids see that a man can be tender, sensitive, warm, attentive to feelings, and present, just plain ...there. That's important to me, because I didn't get any of that from my own father, and I am realizing now how much I missed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would hope that parents and grown children could be friends. When a friend confides in you that she's going to do something that... you think is most inappropriate, foolhardy or even dangerous, wouldn't you as a friend say so--in a calm, supportive way? Yet I have to be so careful what I say to my children. I have to walk on eggs to be sure I'm not hurting their feelings or interfering with their lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,... who has moments of intense anger and of negative feelings which are not integrated into that large body of responses, impressions and emotions we call 'our feelings for someone,' but instead they are coming from someone who is seen to know what she does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »