Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.
– Madeline Levine
Related Quotes:
- Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others. – Gordon Dahlquist
- History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. – Julian Barnes
- Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. – Edward de Bono
- I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let’s put it to the test. – Anna Gavalda
- There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage. – Kristen Henderson
- I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places. – Saleem Haddad
- I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps. – Frederick Dodson
- I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn’t so busy making my own. – Truth Devour
- A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being. – Samael Aun Weor
- No amount of money can compensate losing your purpose – Sunday Adelaja
- My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours. – Anna Lyndsey
- Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future. – Alen Sargsyan
- The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. – James C Collins
- It perplexes me. How can one sad incident compensate ten happy incidents? Why? Happiness is losing. – Bhavik Sarkhedi
- Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond. – Ace Antonio Hall
- No matter how much and how often – ‘things’ will never compensate for loss or absence…no matter how guilty a parent feels. – TF Hodge
- …no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- If someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow. – Ted Dekker
- Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. – James Baldwin
- Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive… – Ashok Kallarakkal
- A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – CS Lewis
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
- They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them. – Carsten Jensen
- It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts. – Suzy Kassem
- There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child. – Asa Don Brown
- I have never been sad because my losses are my profits – Praveen KC
- I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. – Gail Caldwell
- Their world seemed made of little losses. she was always having to say goodbye, part with something. A brilliant sunset. A blossom. A sweet feeling. – Laura Frantz
- We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past. – Bryant McGill
- He couldn’t count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension. – JU Scribe
- How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire? – Dorianne Laux
- More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. … The losses piled up. – Karen Kingsbury
- Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us. – Billy Graham
- Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections. – Bryant McGill
- A word of advice, my sweet Emmett – mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few. – Debbie Novotny
- Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes. – Amit Kalantri
- The best wins or losses in life are those that leave you with a newer vision onto life. – Sameh Elsayed
- There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. – John Updike