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“By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”

World Want Humans Mean Earth Speak Understanding Loses Human Beings Wonder Sun Sea Conscious Adults Direct Contact Breathing Superficial Breathing Life Understanding Myself

Book:Stories. Selected,

Source: Stories. Selected,

“It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.”

Knows Children Belief Understanding Stupid Adults Seven

Book:Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)

Source: Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)

“Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.”

Thinking Children Film Understanding Adults Performances Treated Naive Pretense

Author:Wallace Shawn

“When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.”

People Two Matter Young Joy Understanding Friendship Communication Eternal Adults Notion Caring Loyalty Witness Disappointed Preference Faithfulness Unchanging

Author:Abigail McCarthy

“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.”

World Lasts Faces Dies Fall Understanding Pleasure Sun Forever Knowing Amount Adults Beloved Fashionable Passing Away Mockery Petals Savoring

Author:Amy Bloom

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.”

Thinking Ideas Kids Understanding Capable Adults Transgender

Author:Jill Soloway

“The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.”

World Children Important Feelings Eye Understanding Audience Adults Following His Eyes Frequency

Author:Alex Abreu

“To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.”

People Thinking Way Stills Reality Fun Understanding Ability Fantasy Knowing Inspire Perspective Adults Capacity Pessimism Defiance Realist

Author:Alex Ebert

“It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.”

Way Children Stills Today Understanding Teach Technology Modern Adults Modern Technology

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.”

Men Ends Hate Wish Fear Understanding Secret Wife Relationship Understood Adults Mistress

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”

Way Want Needs May Form Mother Wish Understanding Psychology Demand Understood Adults Meetings Nostalgia Violent Hook Vengeance Grudge Vengeful

Author:Adam Phillips

“[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)”

Needs Kind Children Grows Understanding Support Comfort Adults Resources Our Children Introduction Hopefulness

Book:Mr Rogers Parenting

Source: Mr Rogers Parenting