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> [“It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/it-s-like-parents-choosing-to-raise-their-own-standard-of-living/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

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## More by Sylvia Engdahl

> [“But as long as he kept on caring, nothing could touch the freedom of his inner thoughts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/but-as-long-as-he-kept-on-caring-nothing-could-touch-the-freedom-of/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/if-nobody-believed-anything-except-what-they-understood-how-limited/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/there-are-different-kinds-of-truth-and-if-our-kind-is-more-mature/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/it-s-like-parents-choosing-to-raise-their-own-standard-of-living/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/people-who-love-each-other-can-no-more-keep-from-communicating-than/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/people-who-love-each-other-can-no-more-keep-from-communicating-than-2/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?" —Georyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/must-a-man-then-live-as-his-fellows-live-and-never-reach-beyond-georyn/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/but-a-light-now-waxed-within-him-at-the-knowledge-that-such-wonders/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/what-is-it-i-wonder-that-makes-two-people-suddenly-become-important/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/the-human-mind-is-incredible-it-can-do-nothing-without-belief-yet/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/must-a-man-then-live-as-his-fellows-live-and-never-reach-beyond/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/it-is-the-only-happiness-now-possible-to-me-to-know-that-all-is-well/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/the-human-mind-is-incredible-it-can-do-nothing-without-belief-yet-2/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/wherever-he-went-he-would-be-a-stranger-for-there-was-no-home-in-the/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

> [“The questions you framed are unanswerable, and to be terrified by that is a sign not of weakness but of strength. A weak person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-engdahl/the-questions-you-framed-are-unanswerable-and-to-be-terrified-by-that/)

[Sylvia Engdahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-engdahl/)

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