I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.
There is for many a poverty of play.
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein. . . provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child. In that case, the child would find not himself in his mother's face, but rather the mother's own projections. This child would remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.
There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.
It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.
I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce. " It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family. " Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.