“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”

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American psychologist 1926–2011

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“To feel obligated to finish all of your food is to be living with a mindset of scarcity. It is the little things from our childhood that have the longest impact.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

“The fearsome fact of our time is that other elements than the government have assumed the role of directing our affairs. To a very large extent the way we live and the things we live for are determined by the interests of powerful and monopolistic corporations”

Stanley Knowles (1908–1997) Canadian politician

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 80 (See also: New World Order)

“Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

Source: Corelli's Mandolin

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in… We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars

“Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.”

Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture (2007)

“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”

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