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I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children; certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.

- Fred Rogers (1928-2003), U.S. children’s TV personality, educator, writer

This quote is brought to you at the good folks at the Foundation for a Better Life. This quote is about compassion. Enjoy!

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

- Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), educator, writer, theologian

This quote is brought to you at the good folks at the Foundation for a Better Life. This quote is about including others. Enjoy!

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

- Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), educator, writer, theologian

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

- David Starr Jordan, (1851-1931) educator, author, peace activist; exerpt from “The Philosophy of Despair”