Parenting And Happiness Quotes

#1. Robin Simon, a sociology professor at Florida State University and researcher on parenting and happiness, told The Daily Beast in 20083 that parents experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers.

Jessica Valenti

#2. With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated

Charisse Montgomery

#3. Rachel?" came Ivy's voice from her room. "Where's my sword?"
"In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood

Kim Harrison

#4. Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

Thomas Bray

#5. Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy.

Hermann Hesse

#6. The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.

Robert D. Hales

#7. I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#8. Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child's entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?

Dan Pearce

#9. If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself?

Wole Soyinka

#10. Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#11. A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#12. Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Aldous Huxley

#14. The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Joyce Brothers

#15. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what I needed to find out.

Jay Asher

#16. My child, may you live happily forever. May you experience great success and happiness in life! But you will never be able to experience bliss. For, the one who sins cannot attain bliss, he might get everything in his life but not bliss ~ Gayatri Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#17. Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Dan Pearce

#18. Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

#19. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.

Adam Phillips

#20. Unlike Lahore, Amritsar was unable to reclaim the proud position that it once commanded.

Daman Singh

#21. Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had help - perhaps a good deal of help.

Bill Bryson

#22. Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

Craig Venter

#23. Fear or happiness... Parenting or impulse... Primitive stupidity or vain self-destruction...

Plamen Chetelyazov

#24. More of anything only makes us more of what we already are. If we are happy, it can bring more happiness. If we are depressed, it will make us more depressed.

Rand Olson

#25. Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

Edward Rutherfurd

#26. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.

Dan Pearce

#27. God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

Gloria Furman

#28. Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Amy Chua

#29. People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?

Jan Ellison

#30. Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self ... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

Misty Upham

#31. There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

Deepak Chopra

#32. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Katherine Mansfield