Child wisdom
We have much to learn from children—the simple, the pure, the truth.
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Child wisdom
What is your play history?
As anyone who has been interrogated by a smart aleck child knows it takes maybe four whys in a row before the veneer of adult knowing falls apart completely. The first why is easy to answer, the second why requires pulling from the jigsaw puzzle of stock answers and handed-down cliches. Further whys beyond this and things start becoming worryingly... See more
Thomas J Bevan • On New Year's Resolutions
inner acceptance, love and peace in my experience are the only things that don’t reduce to meaninglessness when hit repeatedly with a succession of child-like whys.
I was thinking about all the time spent browsing with no real aim, and how even as a 12 year old, there was some small intuitive sense of the things I was drawn to.
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
“I didn’t know what kind of person, what kind of adult I’m going to be. I really don’t know. I really hated to become an adult. So in my heart, I’m still a child.” Yohji-san smiles.
Yohji Yamamoto is living on his own terms
Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
— C. S. Lewis, “On Stories” https://t.co/wGA8Ixcmye
a quote shared by my six year old today: your tongue has no bones but can break hearts
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
The Little Prince
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