No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.
Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.
You're only as happy as your least happy child.
For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.
Marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy - trees are happy, birds are happy, animals are happy, children are happy. What is special in that? It is just the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! - can't you see these trees?...so happy. Can't you see the birds singing?...so happily. Happiness has nothing special in it. Happiness is a very ordinary thing.
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