Best childhood & individual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”

Way Humans Individual Cities Study Childhood Century Adults Complicated Finished Versions Curious Fascinating Transformed Infant

Book:GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

Source: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

“The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.”

Individual Race Sacrifice Childhood Painful Panic Avert Placating

Author:Rebecca West

“It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.”

Men Soul Pain Found Individual My Own Grief Doors Childhood Poet Expression Old Man Farmers Potatoes Parting Beggar Disclosure Expressions Of Love Workhouses

Book:The Kiltartan Poetry Book

Source: The Kiltartan Poetry Book

“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

People Persons Country Certain Individual Taken Happened Childhood Return Siege Under Siege

Book:Black Dreams

Source: Black Dreams

“The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.”

Wells Children Individual Community Childhood Possibility Youth Activity Desert Better Life Here And There Abiding

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

“We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.”

Care Individual Childhood Characteristics Motivated Ancestor Erase

Author:Agnes Meyer Driscoll

“What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.”

People Has Beens Different Age Names Individual Wise Heard Childhood Perspective Bears Innocent Old Age Maturity Collectives Dunces

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.”

Way Trying May Persons Real Facts Individual Journey Childhood Commitment Scared Trauma Real Life Psychological Stay True Oblivious Archetype Insensitive

Author:Romany Malco

“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”

Kind Individual Childhood Scene Concepts Incapable Homesickness Withstanding

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.”

Giving Littles Feelings Light Beautiful Night Individual Childhood Understood Infinite Sand Grain Nothingness Humiliating Watchers

Book:The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

Source: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

“When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.”

World Long Whole Stories Earth Form Life Is Individual Greater Our Lives Mystery Childhood Movement Expression Seasons Harmony Limitation Parenthood Gravity Individual Life Maleness

Author:Jack Kornfield

“At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.”

“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”

Individual Struggle Childhood Acceptance Emotional Taught Weapons Unique Discovery Endure Illness Mental Illness Taught Us

Author:Alice Miller

“It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.”

Firsts Father Individual Childhood Holy Columns

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.”

Way Giving Reason Individual Memories Childhood Deny Liberation Impulse Telling The Truth Rationality Forbidden Cognition Repressed Psychoanalytic

Book:Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Source: Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

“Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice”

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