Tsabary Quotes

#1. I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

Adrian Mitchell

#2. After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke.

Esther Forbes

#3. [I'm a conscious parent when I believe] a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.

Shefali Tsabary

#4. Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.

Shefali Tsabary

#5. Clearly no one knew the socially correct way to deal with a brawl in a ballroom that had been started by a lady.

Amanda Quick

#6. When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.

Gae Aulenti

#7. The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect operatic version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.

Shefali Tsabary

#8. There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.

Shefali Tsabary

#9. I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

Kevin Garnett

#10. Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.

Shefali Tsabary

#11. People who exercised about three to six hours prior to sleep slept better. No exercise, no improved sleep.

Matthew Edlund

#12. The more you focus on connection the more free you are on one hand and the more free you can be because the child does feel authentically connected to their destiny.

Shefali Tsabary

#13. Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.

Matt Dillon

#14. How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

Iris Murdoch

#15. The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart ...

H.G.Wells

#16. All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify

Erving Goffman

#17. I think the main benefit is that much of the traditional parenting that's being carried out today is so fear based and while the parent thinks they're in control they're really being ruled by fear. Everything is connected to fear.

Shefali Tsabary

#18. There is that moment in time where you have to realize you have to let go of the rope...

K. Farrell St. Germain

#19. Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.

Shefali Tsabary

#20. It is the first thing to go/
I've noticed,/
The voice.

Matthew Keefer

#21. If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any sense of superiority.

Shefali Tsabary

#22. The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive.

Shefali Tsabary

#23. Children are way more articulate, way more connected to their rights, and they want to be fully participating, empowered members of society but we have to release and we have to let go. We have to allow children to enter their self-governance and their state of empowered presence.

Shefali Tsabary

#24. If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles Wagner

#25. We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.

Shefali Tsabary

#26. Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.

Hari Kondabolu

#27. When we prioritize and focus and that becomes the anchor the relationship becomes the anchor and it trumphs everything else than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.

Shefali Tsabary

#28. [I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened ways to create boundries with my child.

Shefali Tsabary

#29. I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

#30. I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

Shefali Tsabary

#31. The child is free to live out their own destiny.

Shefali Tsabary