Kyle Becker > Kyle's Quotes

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.”
― Ron Fournier, Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations

“No one cares what you did two years ago if what you did last year is awesome. Don’t look back, move forward.”
― Isaac Morehouse, Crash Your Career

“They are not raising children so much as living résumés, and by the time high school arrives, the kids have learned to sign up for activities strictly to impress college admissions committees, ignoring (or, eventually, losing sight of) what they personally find interesting in the here-and-now. They have acquired the habit of asking teachers, “Do we need to know this?”—rather than, say, “What does this mean?”—as they grimly set about the business of trying to ratchet up their GPA or squeeze out another few points on the SAT.”
― Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

“It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.”
― Rush Limbaugh

“if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin.”
― John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

“For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.”
― Martin Buber, On Judaism