“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.” WholeChoicesChildhoodEventsBirthAdvantageThis DayRejoiceMy Birthday Book:Ecce Homo Source: Ecce Homo
“I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.” WayHappensChoicesOpportunityWishRealizingMy OwnPathChildhoodThings HappenRoughLife Choices Author:Corey Feldman
“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.” IfsWorldWayLifeInspirationalFirstsHeartMayHas BeensStoriesBodyChoicesNextProcessRealizingStepsSadnessChildhoodAwarenessMessagesPrisonYour BodyReleaseLive ByDaringLockedReverseAnother WayOutside WorldChoices You MakeTelling Your Story Author:Martha Beck
“Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.” MayTwoHandsMotherChoicesGrowsLove IsBoysGrowing UpChildhoodConditionsPossibilityObjectsTaughtDegreesAttractionAnalysisForbiddenHis LoveNeuroticExhibitsTaught UsPsychoInhibitionsDevelopmentalRegression Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because of sin in our lives, choices made, or wrong turns taken and the regret, guilt, and shame that follows. Other false identities are handed to us by outside sources, maybe a damaging word spoken to us by someone or a childhood of abuse. However, not all false identities are negative on the surface, such as successful, attractive, wealthy, athletic, or talented. But even those identities can become false when we place too much of our weight on them.” LyingChoicesSinSuccessfulTakenChildhoodIdentityRegretNegativeAbuseShameGuiltScriptureAttractiveWealthyAthleticLife ChoicesWrong Turn Author:Matthew West
“The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whole pop or classical canon, were just as important as algebra or biology. Music is such a visceral and tactile experience for a kid, and to just replace that with video games or something that doesn't have the same sort of physical impact would definitely be a poor choice, and have a negative impact.” ImportantEnoughKidsSchoolSongChoicesParentPoorChildhoodMusic IsNegativeBiologyExploringInvolvementAlgebra Author:Carrie Brownstein
“People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'” PeopleChoicesSimpleChildhoodGood LifeSimple WordsWord Choice Author:Laura Schlessinger
“Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.” WorldHomeFacesChoicesHoursMemoriesPleasureMorningChildhoodThis WorldReturnCreaturesAspectLaysReleaseStaringBellsTowersMaking LoveSpontaneityOne HourVisceralDomesGodlikeLeonardoHuntressByzantium Author:Frances Mayes
“In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.” IfsWayFeelsWritingLittlesCharacterStoriesChoicesReadingSoundGoneCrazyChildhoodIllnessMental IllnessLooking BackHauntingSleevesTelling StoriesMaking UpLove Of ReadingUnsatisfiedTugging Author:Shannon Hale
“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.” EndsHappensChoicesLossChildhoodPossibilityTypeCommitmentMarkFlatteryLimitlessDuressLimitless Possibilities Author:David Foster Wallace
“The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.” WorldRealMomentsRealityChoicesAudienceChildhoodDangerTruth IsBattleEntertainmentTheatreReal LifeAdmireWelcomeMortalsGentlemanOutcomesResolveHeroicGesturesHeroismFoeValorQueuesOvation Author:David Foster Wallace
“Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.” YearsLongSchoolChoicesNamesFiveFourChildhoodNeededLateTwentiesUniversityAffairForgottenThirtyFive YearsTeensLeavers Author:Ian Mcewan
“Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.” BelieveMadeChoicesBeliefPsychologyChildhoodInnocence Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic