Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
BENJAMIN SPOCKA human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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