The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Interpretation
Children should lead their own lives rather than conform to the expectations of their parents.
This quote emphasizes the importance of individuality and self-determination in a child's life. It suggests that parents often impose their own anxieties and expectations onto their children, which can hinder the child's personal growth and happiness. Instead, children should be encouraged to make their own choices and explore their own paths, free from the pressures of parental expectations.
In practice
This quote can be shared at parenting workshops to highlight the importance of supporting children's autonomy.
A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
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