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“We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.”

Believe Childhood Events Mercy Our Children

Book:The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

Source: The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

“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.”

Whole Choices Childhood Events Birth Advantage This Day Rejoice My Birthday

Book:Ecce Homo

Source: Ecce Homo

“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.”

Heart Whole Facts Stories Home Bits Pieces Childhood Events Whole Life Christmas Carrie Repetition Validity Nursery

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.”

Men Feels Moments Earth Seeing Feet Childhood Events Type Impressive Earthquakes Insignificance Solidity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”

“There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.”

Humans May Philosophy Moments Seems Remember Turns Path Childhood Events Particular Theory Who I Am Human Life Urges Peculiar Sooner Or Later Signals Fascination

Author:James Hillman

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.”

Wells May Persons Long Has Beens Character Dream School Earth Reading Goal Childhood Middle Events Honesty College Ideals Philosopher Annoyed Narnia Grad Middle Earth Grad School

Author:N.D. Wilson

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”

Ifs World Firsts Kind Different Fall Found Magic Childhood Events Bed Seasons Wake Up Snow Enchantment Snowflake Winter Snow Snow Falling First Snow Snow Storms

Author:J. B. Priestley

“You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.”

People Thinking Giving School Games Lost Childhood Missing Events Giving Up High School Trade Awful Missing You Prom

Author:Mary Lou Retton

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”

Loss Childhood Events Add Series Stolen Robbery Owen Meany

Book:In One Person: A Novel

Source: In One Person: A Novel

“Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”

Should Littles Feelings Form Half Pieces Happened Childhood Events Evening Dimensions Vocabulary Scrap Examining

Book:Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Source: Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away