Petra's Preferred Ponderings

...A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold S. Hulbert

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
James Matthew Barrie

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

Children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

When you are a mother you are never alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren

Quotes on Positive Thinking

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab

Nothing is good or bad but that our thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

The secret of happiness is not in getting what you like, but in liking what you get.
James Matthew Barrie