#childhood

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#because #child #childhood #corner #could

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#back #child #childhood #had #having

You can recognize survivors by their creativity. In soulful, insightful, gentle, and nurturing creations, they often express the inner beauty they brought out of childhood storms. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#abuse-survivors #childhood-abuse #childhood-sexual-abuse #effects-of-child-abuse #harrietta-s-happenstance

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be. ↗

— Robert Frost

#fun #innocence #life #dreams

... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit. ↗

— Sarah Winman

#growing-up #life-lessons #dreams

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#corfu #magic #merlin #family

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— Christopher Earle

#forgiveness #inspirational #parenting #relationships #forgiveness

Dissociation (being split-off from one’s deepest truth) mimics enlightenment – but it isn’t enlightenment. People who are dissociated live in great peace. But this is only because they have blocked their negative feelings. The enlightened person resolves his negatives feelings, and thus his peace is not false. People who are dissociated do not suffer. But this is only because they have abandoned their healing process and numbed their pain. Enlightenment grows from the fertilized soil of suffering. People who are dissociated call themselves enlightened. But this is only because they have they have no conception of what enlightenment is. Enlightenment is the polar opposite of dissociation. People who are dissociated feel they have mastered forgiveness. But this is only because they completely deny the harm done to them – and the damage remaining. The enlightened forgive spontaneously and without effort because they have fully embraced their damaged parts and grieved every honest ounce of their misery. ↗

— Daniel Mackler

#forgiveness

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

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#children #corruption #knowledge #mind #nikki-sixx