However deep our devotion may ...

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
 Vera Brittain

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
 Vera Brittain
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
 Vera Brittain
Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.
 Vera Brittain
I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
 Vera Brittain
For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
 Vera Brittain