Single word Quote by Gary Chapman

“We were taught to always put on a good face, even when things are going poorly. We were told to “keep sweet,” an admonition…

— Lisa Pulitzer

“Children were very cruel and made fun of me. I could tell you many stories of times I was treated badly, and although the…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“it was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I recall as a child when I got so hostile that I didn’t know whom to trust anymore, and then I would still act…

— Patricia Dsouza

“Wasn’t it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return?”

— Maeve Binchy

“I really wanted to show that it wasn’t all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all…

— Alan Cumming

“There was no comfort in happy memories; they just made it all seem worse.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“I think of how emotions seem so magnified when you're a child. Joy is more all-encompassing, disappointments more crushing, hope more palpable.”

— Emily Giffin

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.”

— Heather Lende

“I was a happy child. I felt loved. I never would've imagined that things would turn out the way that they did".”

— Bella Forrest

“If your ever having a bad day, sit and talk to a child. You'll walk away with a hundred reasons to smile”

— Phil DuPont