“All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.” HumansLongTurnsMemoriesGreaterChildhoodEmotionalAbsolutesListsWoundsCertaintyBagsSignificanceResentmentPacksRatsAbsolute Certainty Book:Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die” HumansDiesGrowsBornHuman BeingsForgetCitiesChildhoodAdolescence Author:Elif Safak
“In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.” PeopleLoveBelieveHumansMayStatesFeelingsWisdomPoliticalSpiritSocialNaturalHuman BeingsExistenceMeditationEconomicChildhoodYogaDirectInnocentWellnessAlmightyTime PassesExistence Of God Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.” HumansFoundCausesEducationTeacherChildhoodPrejudiceErrorsChiefsHuman Error Author:Rene Descartes
“Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.” HumansSeemsHuman BeingsWrittenChildhoodGratitudeLettersThanksOfficialsSantaSanta Claus Author:Robert E. Lee
“To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.” HumansArtDreamCommonVisionChildhoodBrokenLimitsLogicIntellectCommon SenseBrokeInnocenceImmortalityRealmsBarriersImmortalWorks Of ArtInterfereTimelessEnteringFine ArtsEscapingModern ArtChildhood DreamsVisions And DreamsCultural Barriers Author:Giorgio de Chirico
“As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.” KnowsBelieveHumansKindLastsDesireDiesI BelieveHuman BeingsForgetChildhoodEssentialsAnxietyUnderstoodPhilosophicalSevenAccessPreventing Author:Eugene Ionesco
“There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.” HumansFeelingsStrongChildhoodEmotionalShapesResponseHillsValleysAssociatesTriggersEvokeRoller CoasterCoastersCinematicStrong FeelingEmotional ResponseHills And Valleys Author:Diablo Cody
“A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.” HumansHappinessPoorChildhoodContactPreparationHappy Childhood Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette