“When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLittlesHelpingIndividualKnowingAdultsMajorityMisunderstandingMisunderstoodBeing Misunderstood Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.” IfsMindChildrenNaturalKnowingCreaturesAdultsAffectionSelfish Book:A Treatise on Parents and Children Source: A Treatise on Parents and Children
“A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.” ChildrenTwoLightInterestAcceptingKnowingAdultsExtraordinaryNot KnowingIncidentsCommonplaceImprobableMidway Book:The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas Source: The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas
“What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.” PeopleIdeasAbleLaughingKnowingBalanceJokesAdultsTricksAppealsFunny ThingsAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.” WorldLastsFacesDiesFallUnderstandingPleasureSunForeverKnowingAmountAdultsBelovedFashionablePassing AwayMockeryPetalsSavoring Author:Amy Bloom
“To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsRealityFunUnderstandingAbilityFantasyKnowingInspirePerspectiveAdultsCapacityPessimismDefianceRealist Author:Alex Ebert
“There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?” WorldChildrenCountryKidsLeftSexGrowsCitiesKnowingGenerationsAdultsSlaverySlaveNosesVillageNot KnowingShockingAnother WorldAnother LifeTraffickingKidnappedNepalCities In The WorldShocking Things Author:Gillian Anderson