to me it means “fighting” to keep from falling for all the times, as we age, where someone or lots of someone’s want you to dislike a certain person or group for reasons that the “child in you” can’t understand… 10/29/2025
Take whatever you need from “childhood” to increase your chances of becoming a happier adult! 10/29/2025
Yes! Why do we feel that we must give up everything that we enjoyed as a kid to be able to transition into adulthood? 10/29/2025
To teach a person how to think is enough! Do this for a child and then leave them to “think for themselves!” 10/29/2025
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.” Anne Lamott, Joe Jones 10/29/2025
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, ‘Am I having fun?’ Christopher Meloni 10/29/2025
When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, … I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can’t quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally. 10/29/2025
For centuries, humans have said to horses, ‘You do what I tell you or I’ll hurt you.’ Humans still say that to each other — still threaten, force and intimidate. I’m convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, and in the raising of children. At heart, I’m saying that no one else has the right to say ‘you must’ to an animal — or to another human. 10/29/2025
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. 10/29/2025
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. 10/29/2025
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. 10/29/2025
The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab. 10/29/2025
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. 10/29/2025
There is such a place as fairyland – but only children can find the way to it…until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again…The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. 10/29/2025
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. 10/29/2025
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. 10/29/2025
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. 10/29/2025
I’m a big child at heart. I think it’s important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life. 10/29/2025
