Byron Katie Quotes

I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.