Happiness"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves." ~Ethel Percy Andrus"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." ~Ingrid Bergman "Never fear spoiling children by making them too hapy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow - the wholesome warmth necessary to make the heart-blood circulate healthily and freely; unhappiness -- the chilling pressure which produces here an inflammation, there an excrescence, and worst of all, 'themind's green and yellow sickness' -- ill temper." ~Ann Eliza Bray "To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness." ~Rita Mae Brown "Gratitude is the memory of the heart; therefore forget not to say often, I have all I ever enjoyed." ~Lydia M. Child "There is in all of us an impediment to perfect happiness, namely, weariness of what we possess, and a desire for what we have not." ~Virginia des Rieux "I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived soley on the barracades. I reserve my right to be frivolous." ~Betty Friedan "Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to he sky and want, more than all the world, your return." ~Mary Jean Iron "Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much, but they also suffer much. The greater the light the stronger the shadow." ~Anna Cora Mowatt "Just knowing that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." ~Kathleen Norris "You are as happy as you allow yourself to be -- so why be unhappy?" ~Marilyn Quayle "Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product." ~Eleanor Roosevelt "If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you." ~Sister Mary Tricky "Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. "Sing and the hills will answer, Sigh and it's lost on the air; For the echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink form voicing a care." ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox "May your every wish be granted." ~Ancient Chinese Curse
Parenting Quotes"The most important thing kids need to help them survive in this world is someone who's crazy about them." ~Urie Bronfenbrenner (child psychologist)"Parents need to remember that little things often matter most -- maintaining mealtimes, helping with homework, telling bedtime stories, taking weekend excursions, praying together. Children's needs must come first." ~Hillary Rodham Clinton "Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are being formed; his blood is being made; his mind is being developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow. His name is today." ~Gabriela Mistral "Children are not miniature versions of ourselves. From the beginning, they are individuals who must be respected for who they are and are meant to become." ~Hillary Rodham Clinton Although this one isn't exactly about parenting, I thought it was a good quote: "Sunday School teachers taught us that prejudice was wrong in the sight of God and explained that the reason God made so many different kinds of people was to enjoy their diverse beauties and gifts, like a garden's various fruits and flowers." ~Hillary Rodham Clinton
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