Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin Children, Example You May Also Like Children are a great comfort in your old age—and they help you to reach it faster, too. By Lionel M. Kauffman Age, Aging, Children, Funny, Middle Age How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child. By William Shakespeare Children, Family, Gratitude The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. By Albert Einstein Beauty, Children, Hope, Truth Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection. By Karl Stern Children, Hostility, Love, Psychology, Self-esteem Rebellion is a phase that all children go through. By Anonymous Children, Rebellion Insanity is hereditary—you get it from your children. By Sam Levenson Children, Family, Funny, Insanity You May Also Like from James Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. By James Baldwin Funny, Money, Sex If you’re afraid to die, you will not be able to live. By James Baldwin Death, Life, Wise To defend one’s self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. By James Baldwin Anxiety, Fear, Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting
Children are a great comfort in your old age—and they help you to reach it faster, too. By Lionel M. Kauffman Age, Aging, Children, Funny, Middle Age
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child. By William Shakespeare Children, Family, Gratitude
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. By Albert Einstein Beauty, Children, Hope, Truth
Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection. By Karl Stern Children, Hostility, Love, Psychology, Self-esteem
Insanity is hereditary—you get it from your children. By Sam Levenson Children, Family, Funny, Insanity
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. By James Baldwin Funny, Money, Sex
To defend one’s self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. By James Baldwin Anxiety, Fear, Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting
