#child

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected. ↗

— Ben Okri

#dreams

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#gravity #youth #youth

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#parenting #teaching #parenting

I’ll tug at your breasts like a thirsty child. Try not to burn your nipples in my hot coffee. While you’re at it, I also like sugar in my coffee.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#breasts #child #coffee #cream #drink

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#child #child

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#child

I was with book, as a woman is with child. ↗