I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
Nicole KidmanRead
It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
Interpretation
Embracing one's natural beauty can have personal and familial significance.
In this quote, Nicole Kidman reflects on her journey of accepting her curly hair, which she has learned to embrace over the years. This acceptance is not just a personal victory but is also connected to her relationship with her daughter, who shares the same curly hair and finds joy in it, showcasing the importance of familial bonds and self-acceptance.
In practice
In a speech about self-acceptance and beauty standards.
I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.
I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.
I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?
Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'
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