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“Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.”

Years May Self Age Freedom Ability Childhood Old Age Being The Best Self Centered

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.”

Self Enough Action Belief Ability Doubt Childhood Type Response Core Our Family Good Enough Rooted Subconscious Symptoms Not Good Enough Self-doubt Limiting Beliefs Core Beliefs

Author:Lauren Mackler

“The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.”

Ability Forget Childhood Sorrow Features Enchanting

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.”

Ifs Important School Certain Ability Childhood Skills Degrees High School Sense Of Humor Uniqueness Adolescence Organize American Politics School Days

Author:Lee Atwater

“Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.”

Thinking Play Bigs Kids Ability Poor Class Childhood Middle Huge Program Patterns Obstacles Middle Class Segregation Guise Early Childhood Socialization Regimentation

Author:Pedro Noguera

“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”

Thinking Giving Heart Dream Body Remember Young Suffering Girl Opportunity My Own Ability Poverty Sadness Childhood Havens Mom Forgotten Pursue Eras Young Women

Author:Shin Kyung-sook

“Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.”

Ability Childhood Genius

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.”

Matter Helping Home Remember Courses Ability Sacrifice Childhood Conditions Talent Return Gratitude Fortune Helping Others Pleasant Good Fortune Harmonious Another Life Home Life

Author:Albert Schweitzer