Profound Quotes

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

children parenting

I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.

death

There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes.

present moment

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to be fear, only to love.

wise how to live life

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

the self the past

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

parenting children

Living is
a thing you do
now or never --
which do you?

present moment