Home / Quotes / Quote by Bernie Siegel

Quote by Bernie Siegel

“If nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know what they need, and more surprisingly, the know what we need. Adults think. Kids respond with their feelings. They don't think about what you will think of their answer, so they just speak the truth-if you can get to them before junior high school age. At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.”

Quote by Bernie Siegel

Author

Bernie Siegel is an American writer known for his works on life philosophy and health psychology. His books emphasize the importance of a positive attitude towards life and self-actualization. more

You May Also Like

“The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.”

Knows Feels Children Parent Quality Degrees Gold Valuable

Author:M. Scott Peck

“By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.”

Want Wells May Children Grows Bits Lines Growing Up Teaching Easier Cost Skills Adults Our Children Enormous Unhappy Followers Later In Life

Book:Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power

Source: Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power

“For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.”

Ifs Mean Children Important Self Helping Parent Steps Struggle Discipline Advantage Perseverance Mastery Self Discipline Unlikely Impatience Sabotage Solicitude

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“If you are trying to appear calm and collected on the outside when actually you are feeling upset and angry, your children may mirror this to you by becoming wild and disruptive. While you are trying to maintain control, they pick up the chaotic energy inside of you and reflect it in their behavior. If you express directly what you are feeling, without trying to cover it up, they will usually calm down. They feel comfortable with the truth, the congruity between your feelings and your words. This is true of other relationships as well.”

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.”

People Knows Air Cameras New Orleans Bourbon

Author:Brad Pitt

“If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.”

Ifs Guy Found Sells Climate Fingers Smell If I Could Bottles New Orleans Cradle Incomplete Fraternity Flipped Goodman Chromosomes

Author:John Goodman

“But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.”

People Wells Made Water Built Rain Towns Complaining Graves New Orleans Cellars Rain Water

Book:Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections

“Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.”

“Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.”

Ifs World Country States America Turns Sound United United States Scene Thirds United States Of America New Orleans Third World Sudan Third World Countries

Author:Al Roker

“The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.”

Heard Citizens Evidence Conspiracy Participation New Orleans Jury John Kennedy Grand Jury

Author:Jim Garrison