“Silver linings abound: I always knew I loved my son, but you certainly get a “perspective-check” when you go through a parting… — Rob Kozak Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
“From his own experience, Alex knew that parental love is an ideal, not a guarantee.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I have known friendship love, parental love, romantic love, family love and unrequited love in my life time, but the only love… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Miss Blanche, having given through her tears a complete account of this event, assured me that, to maintain our own parental love… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“Children have an amazing ability to perceive this need in the parent(s). The true self of the child seems to know it… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The chief and most damaging of the competing attachments that undermine parenting authority and parental love is the increasing bonding of our… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love -- its quality --… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Unconditional parental love is the indespensible nutrient for the child's healthy emotional growth. The first task is to create space in the… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“Parental love is a matchless thing; if it weren't for that, most of us wouldn't have a pot to piss in, affectionately… — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Thank you for telling me fairy tales, but also for teaching me how to face the battle I'd need to win in… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
No matter how old we are, or whether they're dead or alive, we always want our parents to be proud of us. — Laura S Copy Share Image
“If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize, who you are and what you want to become in life, then you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I'll never forget the stillness, the hesitation, and a trace of something I'd never before seen on Ghosh's face: cunning. Then it… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I would encourage any absentee fathers to consider, for the sake of their children, the following: – maintain the bond of love;… — Rob Kozak Copy Share Image
“She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.” — Seth Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Am I worthy of Juliet, I wondered, worthy as my father was of my mother?” — Robin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“When a child is loved as a child, it does not matter if they are boy or girl, abled-body or disabled, elven… — Maxwell Grantly Copy Share Image
