Alfie Kohn Quotes
Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children.
Quotes to Explore
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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There are no rules when it comes to love.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work for them./ Finish your own.
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Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children.
