And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.
– Dave Pelzer
Related Quotes:
- A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. – Gary Edward Gedall
- The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace? – Ann Voskamp
- Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. – Dave Pelzer
- It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world. – Dave Pelzer
- Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. – Dave Pelzer
- This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. – Rachel Higginson
- This is the funniest book I’ve ever held in my hands. –Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical – Dave Barry
- A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended. – Maggie Stiefvater
- Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Ä°pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread. – Orhan Pamuk
- There’s the parent you want and the parent you have. – Karen Harrington
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent! – Rossana Condoleo
- A philanderer cannot be a parent – a parent cannot be a philanderer. – Abhijit Naskar
- Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren’t a perfect parent. – Colleen Ferrary Bader
- A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY – Roald Dahl
- Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
- Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission. – Sarvesh Jain
- If love is what we search for…. Then why at the end of our search we only find pain? – David MarceloCabanas
- I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world. – Shelly Crane
- Tonight, I won’t dream, because nobodyhas held me and no hands have strayed and eventhough I’m drunk with love, my arms are empty. – Melissa LeeHoughton
- Grace is God’s acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us. – Adrian Rogers
- Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem. – Pushkar Saraf
- Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, -œIt is so. – Margie Warrell
- Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance. – Vijay Dhameliya
- She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance. – Susan C Young
- We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we’re looking for. – Ron Brackin
- Search, search. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts. – Pam Farrel
- The search for wisdom is like a search for gold. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Talent does not search for the person, in fact the person needs to search for the talent inside him and take it out to show the world. – Unarine Ramaru
- I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on. – Charlaine Harris
- But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia. – William Faulkner
- It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country. – Robin Hobb
- I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air – air you can kiss – and palms. – Jack Kerouac
- Have you ever suddenly realized it’s someone else’s mood swing and you’re just along for the ride? – Alex Bosworth
- One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace. – Stephen Craig
- One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms-” never what one left. – Erich Maria Remarque
- I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child. – Daphne du Maurier