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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. (Princess Diana )
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. (Princess Diana )
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. (Princess Diana )
Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today. (Princess Diana )
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. (Princess Diana )
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. (Princess Diana )
Children always turn to the light. (Princess Diana )
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone. (Princess Diana )
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. (Princess Diana )
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. (Princess Diana )
Children are our most valuable natural resource. (Princess Diana )
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. (Princess Diana )
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. (Princess Diana )
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. (Princess Diana )
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. (Princess Diana )
Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Princess Diana )
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. (Princess Diana )
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. (Princess Diana )
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. (Princess Diana )
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. (Princess Diana )
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. (Princess Diana )
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty. (Princess Diana )
Children need models rather than critics. (Princess Diana )
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. (Princess Diana )
A child miseducated is a child lost. (Princess Diana )
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