“Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

“The child in her wanted to do as she pleased, cling to impossible hopes. The woman in her wanted to make sound decisions, succeed even if it meant sacrifice. The woman would win; that was inevitable. But the child would not go quietly.”

N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods

Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 7 (p. 173)

“Nothing is so discouraging to subordinates as a chief who hesitates. "Firmness," said Napoleon, "prevails in all things."”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Leadership

“Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.”

Albert Camus book The Rebel

The Rebel (1951)

“I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

McKenna interview (1992)
Context: I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.