All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - by Robert Fulghum

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I
learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain,
but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things
back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't
yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some
and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every
day.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold
hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic
cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but
we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they
all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the
biggest word of all: LOOK . Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The
Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and
milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if
we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where
we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you
are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
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"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning
with love." - Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the
illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight
details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble
mind." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon
himself." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease
worrying about things which are beyond the power of our
will." - Epictetus (55-135AD)

"He that knows nothing, doubts nothing." - English
Proverb

"Out of life’s school of war. - What does not destroy me,
makes me stronger. [Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens.
- Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.]" -
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he
treats those who do nothing for him." Goethe

"When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I
just know they're about to jab me with something."
Homer Simpson

    Children Learn What They Live,   by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.

    If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
    If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
    If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
    If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
    If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
    If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
    If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
    If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
    If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
    If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
    If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
    If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
    If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
    If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
    If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
    If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
    If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
    If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

    To laugh often and much;
    To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
    To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
    To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
    To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
    redeemed social condition;
    To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
    This is to have succeeded.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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