Source: DragonKnight
“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Re: United States Committee for UNICEF (25 July 1963); Box 11, President's Outgoing Executive Correspondence Series, White House Central Chronological File, Presidential Papers, Papers of John F. Kennedy http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx <br class="br">1963
“Contentment, compassion, and tolerance are the pillars of peace.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: Ashtanga Yoga Primer, 1981, p.58
“The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.”
Henry Miller book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 28
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Speech in Saarbrücken (9 October 1938), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
1930s
Seymour Papert book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Introduction
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980)
“I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen.”
Julie Andrews (1935) British actress, singer, author, theatre director, and dancer
Saturday Evening Post (February 1980)
Context: I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.
