Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.


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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN
There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN
I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN
Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN
In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN
The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN
I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN
I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m...
EDITH PEARLMAN
The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
EDITH PEARLMAN
I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w...
EDITH PEARLMAN
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
EDITH HEAD
I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be...
EDITH HEAD
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
EDITH HEAD
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star...
EDITH HEAD
Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col...
EDITH HEAD
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i...
EDITH HEAD
As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi...
EDITH HEAD
We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin...
EDITH HEAD
If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J...
EDITH HEAD
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ...
EDITH HEAD
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ...
EDITH HEAD
There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD
Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD
Some people need sequins, others don't.
EDITH HEAD
I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m...
EDITH HEAD
My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
EDITH HEAD
Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca...
EDITH HEAD
You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
EDITH HEAD
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan...
EDITH HEAD
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
EDITH EVANS
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he...
EDITH EVANS