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Children, before they are squashed by cynicism, are natural visionaries. They can tell you clearly and firmly what the world should be like. There should be no war, no pollution, no cruelty, no starving children. There should be music, fun, beauty, and lots and lots of nature. People should be trustworthy and grownups should not work so hard. It’s
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However, as a child matures to adulthood the world reveals its true nature. Very shortly, the child will know how things really are and what he is really allowed to do.
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“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up,” Herzen says. “But a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn’t disdain what only lives for a day. It pours the whole of itself into each moment … Life’s bounty is in its flow. Later is too late.”
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Life was a long, incompetent search to get back to a feeling you had when you were six.
Eric Puchner • Dream State: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel
Or maybe I don’t want anyone to tell me everything will be okay in the language of my childhood because my childhood room is where I learned that nothing in this world would ever be okay.