Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching u...
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.
It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them no matter what facts develop later on.
Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.
[Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so you share your lives with people.
For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.
Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.
Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We nee...
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can h...
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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