There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done
Kids can spot a phony a mile away.
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.
Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.
If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?
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.
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
Love begins with listening.
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.
In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.
Real strength has to do with helping others.
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.
If it's mentionable, it's manageable.
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.
Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
