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I believe it’s a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

Facts Quotes

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

Real Quotes

When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.

Real Quotes Strong Quotes

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

Responsibility Quotes / Hero Quotes

Watching a baby grow with our help tells us other things we like to feel about ourselves: that we are competent and loving.

It’s good to be curious about many things.

I find out more and more every day how important it is for people to share their memories.

Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words – like aggression and even violence.

The great poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote: “Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the questions themselves.

Mary Lou Kownacki: “There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story.

So maybe you’ll... take some time to think about those who have cared so deeply for you that you’re really nourished in this whole life because of knowing them.

I have long believed that the way to know a spiritual sense is to know it in our real life. I think the best way to understand about God and peace is to know about peace in our everyday lives.

The way you would draw a tree is different from the way anyone else would draw a tree – and that’s the way it’s supposed to be!

You know, we have pieces of the people that have cared about us all through our lives, and they’re all part of us know. And so we represent, each one of us represents, so many investments from others. No one of us is alone.

I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.

To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.

I realize that it isn’t very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch, or control.

Pretending doesn’t require expensive toys.

Play is really the work of childhood. One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child’s uniqueness. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Let’s take the gauntlet and make goodness attractive in this so-called next millennium. That’s the real job that we have. I’m not talking about Pollyanna-ish kind of stuff. I’m talking about down-to-Earth actual goodness. People caring for each other in a myriad of ways rather than people knocking each other off all the time... What changes the world? The only thing that ever really changes the world is when somebody gets the idea that love can abound and can be shared.

In a young child’s mind, parents probably condone what’s on the television, just like they choose what’s in the refrigerator or on the stove. That’s why we who make television for children must be especially careful.

Jane Addams, writing about her Twenty Years at Hull House, said, “People did not want to hear about simple things. They wanted to hear about great things – simply told.

One of our friends asked Fred about his thoughts on heaven when she was taking a walk with him on a Nantucket beach a few years ago. I’ll bet there was a twinkle in his eye when he told her, “Oh, I think there will be a lot of people surprised to see who’s there!” Fred would never want anyone to think they might not be worthy of getting through heaven’s gate. His God loved everyone – just the way they were!

To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

It’s not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It’s what resides inside.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

It’s not easy to keep trying, But it’s one good way to grow. It’s not easy to keep learning, But I know that this is so: When you’ve tried and learned You’re bigger than you were a day ago. It’s not easy to keep trying, But it’s one way to grow.

It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline – from us and eventually from themselves.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

Real Quotes

This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of.

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

I know that when I walk out of the studio someday and there is a child who has Downs Syndrome, for instance, and that child comes up and gives me a hug, I know that that’s the field I want to be growing in. Because I see that people who are not the fancy people of this world are the ones who seem to nourish my soul. And I want to learn how to be the best receiver that I can ever be. Because I think graceful receiving is one of the most wonderful gifts we can give anybody.

Many people work very hard at the things they do for fun.

Honesty is closely associated with freedom.

All we’re ever asked to do in this life is to treat our neighbor – especially our neighbor who is in need – exactly as we would hope to be treated ourselves. That’s our ultimate responsibility.

For Rogers, the very act of asking questions, and trying to answer them honestly, was the key to growing and learning: “We can’t always know what’s behind a child’s question. But if we let a child know we respect the question, we’re letting that child know that we respect him or her. What a powerful way to say, “I care about you!

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

When I think of Robert Frost’s poems, like “The Road Not Taken”, I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life’s choices are like, someone who says, “I’ve been there, and it’s okay to go on”.

More and more I’ve come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it’s always in the wings. It’s never with the spotlight on, it’s usually something that you don’t expect at all.

Real Quotes

Times when families laugh together are among the most precious times a family can have.

The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they’re generally not the ones being touted in the news.

I hope that you’re learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one’s specialty is the most important learning.

What’s been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You’re much more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

Love and success, always in that order. It’s that simple AND that difficult.

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