“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.” IfsArtistChildhoodHavensAmountTwentiesTraumaYour ChildrenComplexity Author:Jeremy Sisto
“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.” StillsSongLeftCitiesGenerationsChildhoodHavensMaterialsAdvantageForgottenVillageEdgySedentaryOpen Road Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsLightViewsDarknessFocusChildhoodHavensInvolvedDramaGuiltBlockInnocencePushingJust BeingPushing Away Author:Marianne Williamson
“It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.” PlayDreamActorsFantasyChildhoodHavensMinesAthleteChampionPrizeConsolationSecond PlaceConsolation Prize Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.” HomeMotherParentLevelsStruggleGrowing UpPathGrowingChildhoodHavensSucceedBackgroundsTypicalSiblingBallerinaSingle ParentMy SiblingsParents Home Author:Misty Copeland
“I always think back to my childhood and I have a distinct memory of me not having any idea who I wanted to be. The funny thing is that I feel the same way now. So much time has passed and I haven't a definitive sense of self.” ThinkingWayFeelsIdeasSelfWantedMemoriesChildhoodHavensFunny ThingsSense Of Self Author:Pamela Anderson
“You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.” CountryCareTodayBreakTakenChildhoodHavensValuableDevelopingAutomobileDeveloping Countries Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.” FeelsKindEndsFeltGoneSadnessChildhoodHavensSummerGreenPlantBrandsWearyPondsFireflyEnd Of Summer Book:Dry: A Memoir Source: Dry: A Memoir
“I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It’s still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I’m fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there’s one thing I haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.” WayYearsBelieveStillsHappensKnowingOne ThingAirSkyChildhoodHavensChangedSpringOkayMiracleSevenBreatheFiftyI SmileI Have ChangedMiracles Can Happen Author:Nicholas Sparks
“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?” ThinkingGivingHeartDreamBodyRememberYoungSufferingGirlOpportunityMy OwnAbilityPovertySadnessChildhoodHavensMomForgottenPursueErasYoung Women Author:Shin Kyung-sook