“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”
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Samuel Johnson362
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“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Douglas Crockford (1955) American computer programmer
In response to David Winer http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/scripting-news-for-12212006/
“Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=r03gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+found+the+best+way+to+give+advice+to+your+children+is+to+find+out+what+they+want+and+then+advise+them+to+do+it%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television ( 27 May 1955 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/may-27-1955-1040725/)
“I will go in this way
Oh and I'll find my own way out.”
Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
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Crash (1996)
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dice-rules-1991 of Dice Rules (17 May 1991) <br class="br">Reviews, Zero star reviews <br class="br">Context: Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”
Robert Orben (1928) American magician and writer
Cheryl Lavin (June 10, 1991) "Something Weird", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. 1D.
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“We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire