Children Quotes by Brenda Ueland

9 Children quotes by Brenda Ueland

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Brenda Ueland’s poetic tone shines in these eight brief musings about kids, turning everyday moments into uplifting reflections. A concise, inspirational collection for anyone who loves a touch of lyrical encouragement.

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All children have creative power.

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We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

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If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could…

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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in…

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I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch…

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If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act…

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I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't…

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We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And…

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I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children…

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If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,…

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“[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree…

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“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and…

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Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are…

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We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

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Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

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... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

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running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:…

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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose…

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... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two…

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“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out…

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When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

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“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or…

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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

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