#childhood

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#consistency #had #i #like #mine

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ↗

— William Gibson

#been #boy #childhood #corner #dead

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now. ↗

— Jon Heder

#did #makes #now #our #us

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#cement #chapter #childhood #during #each

Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ↗

— Ken Hill

#kept #never #promise

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#childhood #during #i #periods #talk

I didn't have a happy childhood. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#happy #happy childhood #i

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#dreams #reality #soul #spirit #dreams

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#selfishness