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“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.”

Knows Mind May Action Certain Childhood Judging Integrity Moved Excellence Affection Superiors Conclusion Motive Companion Disposition Our Actions

Book:Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.”

Ifs Thinking May Long Has Beens Remember Parent Voice White Deals Happened Childhood Paper Ideals Raised Fingers Clouds Neighbor Chill Sibling Libel

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.”

May Dream Fun Childhood Thrill Enabling Childhood Dreams

Author:Randy Pausch

“It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual.”

May Reason Process Memories Childhood Worst Offers Ideals Resistance Artistic Remembered Mold Childhood Memories

Author:Gene Wolfe

“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.”

May Parent Wise Childhood Monsters Planes Cheating Fades Cheat Detachment Monstrous Fade Away

Author:John le Carre

“Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“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.”

“In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”

May Children Life Is Evil Poverty Teach Childhood Industry Habit Safe Our Children Foundation Lays Train Riches Your Children Idleness Early Childhood Future Life

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.”

“I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.”

May Father Parent Childhood Development Mirrors Glimpse

Book:We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse

Source: We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse

“When you’re young, you don’t know that you’re poor, you just know whether or not you’re happy. And i was happy, and loved. My mom did whatever she has to do to get by, and the lesson i learned from my childhood was that it’s possible to pursue happiness, no matter where that pursuit may lead you.”

Knows May Matter Young Poor Childhood Mom Lessons My Mom Pursuit Pursue

Author:Jared Leto

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