Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children

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November 19, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. - Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children "If children are given the chance to believe they're worth something-- if they truly believe that-- they will insist upon it. That is in Rome, Italy, or Rome, Arkansas; in Paris, France, or Paris, Texas. Children don't have to be born with a silver spoon in their mouths, but if they can be convinced they're the best, they become resilient. They themselves will resist any attempts to belittle them. But it's also a bouncing forward, going beyond what the naysayers said, saying, 'No, it's not true that I'm nobody. I know that not only is that not true, but I'm more than you can imagine!'" Read more from Maya Angelou { read more } Be The Change Is there a child that you can believe in unconditionally? Teach them to value themselves and they'll be able to take on the world. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The One Thing They Carried With Them There's More to Life Than Being Happy Building A Regret Free Life Relationships Are More Important than Ambition DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 134,232 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More