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"What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?"

Children Views Optimistic
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Children

"Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete."

Children Imagine Whole Life
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Jenny McCarthy Actress, Model, Television Host
Children

"Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care."

Children Helping Others Recovery
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Jerome Ringo Environmental Activist
Children

"Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me."

Children Roles Role Models
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Jessamyn West Author
Children

"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?"

Children Animal Cat
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Jesus Franco Filmmaker
Children

"I love cinema. It is the most important thing to me. Life is cinema. It has been this way since I was a child of about 14, and I was going every day to see the movies."

Children Important
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Children

"Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern."

Children Flower Patterns
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Children

"I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things."

Mean Children Use
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Children

"I do not think that you can try and systematize education for the whole world. I would try experiments in small communities and in schools to see how they work out, instead of taking the children of an entire nation and trying to bring them up on the same system."

Thinking Children School
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Children

"Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline."

Children Views Exercise
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Children

"When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness."

Children Harm Explaining
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Jim Davis Cartoonist
Children

"I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today."

Children Heart Boys
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
Children

"Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century."

Children Challenges Twenties
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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
Children

"I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that they don't really support other women very much - that they're men-haters and ball-breakers. I've certainly been on the receiving end of those 'compliments' for most of my career."

Believe Children Successful
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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
Children

"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully."

People Children Effort
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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
Children

"If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner."

Children Nice Couple
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