Source: The Power of One
Variant: The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence
“One of the greatest gifts you can give is
your undivided attention.”
“Believing in yourself is the greatest gift you can give to your life.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Credere in te stesso è il regalo più grande che puoi fare alla tua vita.
“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”
“A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.”
The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 9.2
Speech at Jazz at Lincoln Centre; quoted on official website http://www.mozabintnasser.qa/en/Pages/ArticlePreview.aspx?ArticleGuid=de04d373-9eaa-46c8-9f4d-033ff7b8fe1f&Type=Speech# (May 16 2013)
“There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult.”
Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 1 : The Rules of the Game, § 8 : Conclusions : Motor Rules and the Two Kinds of Respect <!-- p. 85 -->
Context: In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. … There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.
“Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.”
Molchanie (1982)
