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drenching himself in the sunshine of his hopes and in the rain of his sorrows.
Understanding grows from personal experience that enables a person to see and feel in ways so varied and so full of changeable meanings that one’s self-awareness is the determining factor.
Out of projected feelings, thoughts, fantasies, dreams, and hopes, new horizons grew in each child.
We don’t write off a case as “hopeless” without trying just one more thing. Some people think this is very bad — to keep hope alive when there is no basis for hope. But we are not looking for a miracle. We are seeking understanding, believing that understanding will lead us to the threshold of more effective ways of helping the person to develop and utilize his capacities more constructively.
There seemed to be no laughter or happiness in this child. Life, for him, was a grim business.
If a child’s play is his natural way of expressing himself, why should we cast it in a rigid mold of a stereotyped response? A child is only confused by questions that have been answered by someone else before he is asked.
— a little boy who had had the opportunity to state himself through his play and who had emerged a happy, capable child, and a mother who had grown in understanding and appreciation for her very gifted child.
Perhaps there is more understanding and beauty in life when the glaring sunlight is softened by the patterns of shadows.
We are all personalities that grow and develop as a result of all our experiences, relationships, thoughts, and emotions. We are the sum total of all the parts that go into the making of a life.
the important things are what we remember after we have forgotten everything else.
As I said I wanted it. As you said you wanted it. As we said we wanted it.
