Quotations by Theme
Childhood - Family
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
Abigail Adams, 1744-1818
"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Phillips), 1918-
"Love lasts when the relationship comes first."
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behaviour."
Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970
"But behaviour in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."
Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970
"Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow."
Adam R. Gwizdala,
"Lying is done with words and also with silence."
Adrienne Rich, 1929-
"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament?"
Aeschylus, 525-456 BCE
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
Agatha Christie,
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
Agatha Christie,
"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
Alain de Botton, 1969-
"Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness."
Alan Moore, 1953-
"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
Albert Bandura, 1925-
"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
Albert Bandura, 1925-
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yet without asking a clear question."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?"
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."
Alex Grey, 1953-
"Instinct is untaught ability."
Alexander Bain, 1818-1903
"It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this."
Alexander Herzen,
"Of Manners gentle,/ of Affections mild; /In Wit a man;/Simplicity, a child."
Alexander Pope,
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
Alexander Smith,
"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
Alexander Smith, 1830-1867
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
Alfred Adler, 1870-1937
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
Alfred Adler, 1870-1937
"There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled."
Alfred Whitney Griswold, 1906-1963
"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."
Alice Duer Miller,
"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world."
Alice Duer Miller,
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."
Alice Duer Miller, 1874-1942
"A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far"
Alice Meynell,
"Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change."
Alice Meynell,
"Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act."
Alice Meynell,
"The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood."
Alice Meynell, 1847-1922
"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
Alice Miller, 1923-
"All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth."
Alvin Toffler, 1928-
"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
Alvin Toffler, 1928-
"Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment."
ALVIN TOFFLER,
"The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
"I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world."
Amos Oz, 1939
"Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims."
Amos Oz, 1939
"The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive."
Anais Nin, 1903-1977
"The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy."
Anatole France, 1844-1944
"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
Andre Dubus, 1936-1999
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."
Andre Maurois, 1885-1967
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
Andre Maurois, 1885-1967
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."
Andre Maurois, 1885-1967
"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny."
Andre Maurois, 1885-1967
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."
Andre Maurois, 1885-1967
"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
Andrew Cohen,
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
Andy Warhol, 1927-1987
"Never fear spoiling children by making them happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow."
Ann Eliza Bray,
"A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend."
Ann Kelly,
"Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals."
Ann Oakley, 1944-
"In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."
Anna Jameson, 1794-1860
"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."
Anna Jameson,
"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."
Anna Jameson,
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank, 1929-1945
"Anger is a natural response when something you value is taken away from you. You may feel alone, isolated or not understood."
Anne Grant,
"Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain."
Anne Grant,
"I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part."
Annie Besant, 1847-1933
"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
Annie Sullivan,
"The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills."
Anthony Brandt,
"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."
Anthony Hecht,
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1944
"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1944
"The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1944
"The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children."
Antonio Porchia,
"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
Antonio Porchia,
"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity."
Antonio Porchia,
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
Archibald MacLeish,
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
Archibald MacLeish, 1892-1982
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
Archibald McLeish, 1892-1982
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
Aristotle,
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Aristotle,
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
Aristotle,
"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication because youth is sweet and they are growing."
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE
"The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children."
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE
"The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them."
Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931
"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
"A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back."
Arthur Miller,
"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
Arthur Miller, 1915-2005
"And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!"
Arthur Rimbaud,
"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
Arthur Rimbaud,
"I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain."
Arthur Rimbaud,
"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own."
Arthur Rimbaud,
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer,
"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
"I expect to pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature (or child), let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Attienne De Grellet,
"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
Audre Lorde,
"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."
Audre Lorde, 19341992
"If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as thyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own."
Audrey Hepburn,
"An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something."
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
B. F. Skinner, 1904-1990
"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
B. F. Skinner, 1904-1990
"Life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Even if it's difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don't get very far in our lifetime."
Barack Obama,
"If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
Barbara Colorose,
"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."
Barbara de Angelis,
"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."
Barbara de Angelis,
"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
Barbara de Angelis,
"The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship."
Barbara de Angelis,
"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day."
Barbara de Angelis,
"A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person."
Barbara Ehrenreich, 194-1
"Students learn what they care about . . .," Stanford Ericksen has said, but Goethe knew something else: "In all things we learn only from those we love." Add to that Emerson's declaration: "the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." and we have a formula something like this: "Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them ."
Barbara Harrell Carson,
"I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun."
Barbara Kruger, 1945-
"I really don't know where my sense of language came from. Neither of my parents was very verbal, but my mother has a nice sense of humor."
Barbara Kruger,
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
Baruch Spinoza,
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
Baruch Spinoza,
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
Baruch Spinoza,
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
Baruch Spinoza,
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
Baruch Spinoza,
"Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee."
Ben Jonson,
"Weigh the meaning and look not at the words."
Ben Jonson, 1572-1637
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
"Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for truth."
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes form society."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"He that is of the opiniorn money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Movies, television shows, and magazines promote impulsive behavior of the most questionable kind, in the most flash-it-in-their-faces manner."
Benjamin Hoff,
"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another. (and to all children)"
Benjamin Jowett,
"A kiss from my mother made me a painter."
Benjamin West, 1738-1820
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
Bertrand Russell,
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell,
"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get."
Bertrand Russell,
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell,
"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
"William James used to preach "the will to believe". For my part, I should wish to preach "the will to doubt". What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite."
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Bertrand Russell,
"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
"There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them."
Bertrand Russell,
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Bertrand Russell,
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."
Bill Beattie,
"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework"
Bill Cosby, 1937-
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."
Bill Maher,
"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."
Bill Vaughan,
"People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children."
Bill Watterson, 1958-
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
Blaise Pascal,
"If we are to succeed we must communicate."
Bob Johnson,
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."
Bradley Miller,
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay."
Brian Aldiss, 1925-
"If you can give your son or daughter one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
Bruce Barton,
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
Bruce Lee, 1940-1973
"Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Within the hearts of men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success."
Bryant H. McGill, 1969-
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions only because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
Buddha, 563-483 BCE
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
C. S. Lewis, 1889-1963
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child"
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961
"Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself."
Carl Rogers,
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967
"Childhood for children yet to be born will be darkened in ways we can't imagine."
Carol Ann Duffy, 1955-
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
Carol Ann Duffy, 1955-
"But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes."
Carson McCullers,
"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832
"Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves."
Charles Churchill,
"Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys."
Charles De Lint,
"The less men think, the more they talk."
Charles de Montesquieu, 1689-1755
"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
Charles de Montesquieu,
"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."
Charles de Montesquieu,
"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."
Charles de Secondat, 1689-1755
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
Charles Peguy, 1873-1914
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
Charles R. Swindoll,
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
"You must teach your children...that all things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
Chief Seattle,
"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
Chogyam Trungpa,
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