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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.
Sep 29, 2025
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.
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.
When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.
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.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children make you want to start life over.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The soul is healed by being with children.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons
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 torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
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.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.