Arianna Huffington Quotes

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they'll be okay. But I might regret not being there for them.

Fatherhood didn't just happen to me. I am deliberately living it, re-imagining it, and rediscovering it every day. It is as beautiful as I make it, just like anything else in life.

I personally don't resent having my children.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

As a parent, your biggest fear is having our child not loved.

Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.