“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.” WellsChildrenIndividualCommunityChildhoodPossibilityYouthActivityDesertBetter LifeHere And ThereAbiding Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922 Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922
“There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.” HumansEndsChildhoodPossibilityTendenciesHumankindInfantileGullible Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.” ChildrenWholeChildhoodPossibilityRemainsSolitaryRecoveringReverieReimagining Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.” MayTwoHandsMotherChoicesGrowsLove IsBoysGrowing UpChildhoodConditionsPossibilityObjectsTaughtDegreesAttractionAnalysisForbiddenHis LoveNeuroticExhibitsTaught UsPsychoInhibitionsDevelopmentalRegression Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.” KindDifferentCharacterRealityAgeOpportunityChanceInterestingVisionImpossibleChildhoodPossibilityWindowYour ChildrenSomething InterestingWindow Of Opportunity Author:Daniel Clowes
“Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.” ChildrenChildhoodPossibilityAdultsAbsolutesTeethFairyAcquireCurrencySantaInfancyTooth Fairy Book:Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey Source: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey
“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.” EndsHappensChoicesLossChildhoodPossibilityTypeCommitmentMarkFlatteryLimitlessDuressLimitless Possibilities Author:David Foster Wallace
“One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.” FirstsDoeHas BeensMadeJoyDestinyChildhoodPossibilityMirrorsSensibilityWholenessBondage Author:Anais Nin