#child

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#grandiosity #imagination #imagination

It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea that Marcus was after a father figure, someone to guide him gently towards male adulthood, but that wasn't it at all: Marcus needed help to be a kid, not an adult. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#raising-children #inspirational

Then why do they hate me? No, they don't. They are just confused. Something different always confuses others. It makes them feel uncomfortable. ↗

— mellyberry

#inspirational #inspirational

As a gift to His people, the King painted their seven colors in the shape of a bridge in the sky, as a symbol for the real bridge that the people had just crossed. ↗

— mellyberry

#inspirational #inspirational

You must live long enough to remember your mistake. That is your punishment. That is your destiny. ↗

— mellyberry

#inspirational #inspirational

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#children #curiosity #knowledge #intelligence

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#life

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#nature #wonder #life

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever. ↗

— Tibor Kalman

#knowledge #life #life

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#child #childhood #encouragement #memoir #memories