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“Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

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Author:Fred Astaire

“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.”

“If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.”

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Author:Erik Erikson

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.”

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Author:Barbara Walters

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

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Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”

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Author:Susie Bright

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”

Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

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Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”

“If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.”

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Author:Joyce Brothers