“Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“So if you are doing all you can, I want you to know I'm proud of you!”
"I'm Proud of You!" (4 June, 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v0lmI_9m9M
Context: So rare that we are told that we are doing just great, and good enough. So if you are doing all you can, I want you to know I'm proud of you! And I wanted to pass that along. And I hope you feel it, and that you know you're doing ok, 'cause you know. Despite what everyone else is saying, you'll know, and I hope you do!
“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”
Source: Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
Variant: The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Source: The Bean Trees
Notes of August 1842, published in Charles Kingsley : His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883) edited by Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, p. 65.
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified