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“The more mature you become, the more childish you are”

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“If I could do it all over again, I would wrap myself around my babies, for as long as they would let me, I would stay home and watch them in slow motion, I would let them sleep in my bed forever,I would stay awake to watch them sleep, I would spend all my time and all my energy to protect the joy and laughter they had within them, I wouldn't try to teach them anything, I would only learn from them how to be so magical, I would never wish for them to grow up sooner.”

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Author:Sama Akbar

“Let us give our children full permission to mess up; They will regardless, just as we did. This way they will know that they can ask for help when they need it and hopefully have the faith that we would love them, regardless.”

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Author:Sama Akbar

“Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.”

Source: Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

“The sense of smell, which seems to diminish as we grow older, until it becomes something scarcely worthy of being called a sense, is nearly as keen in little children as in the inferior animals, and, when they live with nature, contributes as much to their pleasure as sight or hearing.”

Childhood Smell Senses

Book:Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

Source: Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

“As an adult, when you're with your siblings, part of you is always a child, attached to childhood patterns of behavior and associations. All the jokes and gestures, affections and resentments.”

Childhood Adulthood Siblings

Book:The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

Source: The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

“Life — for me — is neither good nor bad, neither a theory nor an idea. Life is a reality, and the reality of life is war. For one who is a born warrior, life is a fountain of joy, for others it is only a fountain of humiliation and sorrow. I no longer demand carefree joy from life. It couldn’t give it to me, and I would no longer know what to do with it now that my adolescence is past...”

Childhood Duty Obligation Nihilism Carefree Absurdism

Book:I Am Also a Nihilist

Source: I Am Also a Nihilist

“Bread was always a proper loaf; there was no sliced bread then, or wrappings, or gloves. Sometimes, if you were lucky, you would cut a slice of bread to find you had cut right through a dead spider. Apparently, after turning off the ovens, spiders used to crawl inside to keep warm, get locked in with the next day’s baking and burrow into the soft yeast to try and escape the heat and then get baked. My mam said that it was quite common, as indeed it was, as it happened a couple of times after. I told the baker and he gave me a free bun. About four years later I was on my way to school and he shouted across the road ‘Had any spiders lately?’ I said ‘Yes, two.”

Childhood Wartime

Book:Passing Clouds

Source: Passing Clouds

“Oh, but childhoods go by so quickly too, we have them for such a short time - six years? Ten at the most? We are so alone in this life.”

Life Childhood Alone

Book:Little Man, What Now?

Source: Little Man, What Now?

“Around the age of seven I wrote a play. The protagonist was a giant; the theme was crime and punishment; the crime was lying, as befits a future novelist; the punishment was being squashed to death by the moon. ...This play was not a raging success. As I recall, my brother and his pals came in and laughed at it, thus giving me an early experience of literary criticism.”

Writing Childhood Literary Criticism

Book:Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Source: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“To him, the world had no order of succession, no causation, no precedent. Everything he saw was new-minted, and thus every day was a parade of wonders.”

Nature Childhood Wonders

Author:Charles Frazier