A Quote by Dorothy Richardson

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

Dorothy Richardson

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Childhood Fortunate Gift Happy Happy Childhood Life Most Perhaps

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Dorothy Richardson
British - Novelist
May 17, 1873 - June 17, 1957

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

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Roy Ayers

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Sean Penn

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Lucy Davis

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Elizabeth McCracken

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

Albert Einstein

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Sue Grafton

God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

Ted Nugent

The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.

Mark Manson

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Frank McCourt

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