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" Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. "

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" Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. "

" When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity. "

" If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency. "

" The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. "

" In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. "

" The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. "

" Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. "

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" A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. "

" The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. "

" We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. "

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. "

" Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. "

" Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. "

" The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. "

" In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness. "

" There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. "

" Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential. "

" A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. "

" Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. "

" Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. "

" At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. "

" Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. "

" Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration? "

" Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. "

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" The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "