Quote by Stephen A. Mitchell

“The beguiling scope of an infant’s mind! adultly considered to be limited to toys and toes. Psychological”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

“So, as an adult, try to notice the carefree nature that comes naturally to a child, who lives for and in the present. Try…

— Thomas M. Sterner

“..a new baby is not uninterrupted bliss. It's joy mixed with terror, fatigue, depression, intense feelings of helplessness, loneliness and inadequacy. And poop.”

— Carolyn Hax

“And I notice too often that the most unfeeling of people relieve their shuttered hearts by cooing over babies, who when grown , will…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in humanity. Yet from birth* in most homes and social groups,…

— Adrienne Rich

“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home environments are…

— Susan Forward

“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”

— Perry Nodelman

“Experience appears in this world as a birth. A birth which takes as assistants sky and earth and the water and wood and mountains…

— Erin Moure

“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience…

— Donald Kalsched