"The only way to make things better is in how we choose to live our lives and how we raise our children. We don't have to plod along to the piper's tune doing as others do, willfully hoping things will get better. We can write our own songs and live to our own beat."

I really love this ^^^ because I'm watching most of my peers follow the same basic path with their kids while we venture down one that departs from the "norm"...and I know from personal experience that being different isn't always easy! But as an adult I can look back and be thankful for it, enough that I want to repeat the cycle with my own kids ;)