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Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be. Carolyn Haywood

Children, Happy, Short, Wish, Innocent

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe. Wayne Dyer

Child, Appreciation, Universe, You

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with. Tom Hodgkinson

Life, Family, Parents, People, Welcome

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. David Mixner

Life, Nature, Spiritual, Adventure, Me

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. David Lowery

Time, Child, Eye, Time Goes By, You

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. Steven Spielberg

Yourself, People, Surround Yourself, You

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives. Robert Webb

Childhood, Men, Gender, Learn, Feminism

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood

Age, I Am, Belief, Everyone, Mine, Am

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. Ursula K. Le Guin

Child, Maturity, Growing Up, Believe, Up

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. Margaret Heffernan

Cell Phone, Comfort, Phone, Belonging

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. Ellen Datlow

Fear, Art, Child, Focus, Fire, Hair

As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends, and I've always built great relationships and been friendly with people. I always think what you do to others will come to you, so that's how I treat people. Roman Reigns

Life, Great, Good, People, Treat, Think

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. Ryan Gosling

Love, Candy, Think, Sometimes, Want

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. - H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. H. G. Wells

Funny, Future, Time, Bicycle, Race, See

It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?' Because I'm trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up. John Mulaney

Funny, Walk, Day, Growing Up, Trying

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. - Walt Disney

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. Walt Disney

Dead, You, Aim, Up, Only, Kids

Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We've forgotten what that childlike experience was like. Guy Laliberte

Children, Experience, Together, Society

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

What Washington needs is adult supervision. Barack Obama

Washington, Needs, Supervision

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them. Matt Haig

Love, Nature, Fear, Death, Writing, Sex

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher. Joe Manchin

Family, Teacher, Caring, Child, Friend

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it. Erik Erikson

Leader, Child, Mind, Small, Will, Sense

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. - Mitch Hedberg

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. Mitch Hedberg

Food, Cheese, Macaroni

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke. David Simon

Change, Progress, Game, Political, Why

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see. Brene Brown

Kindness, Children, Anger, Need, Want

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. J. K. Rowling

People, Me, Writing, Know, Want, Citizen

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. Shigeru Miyamoto

Heart, Child, Think, Inside, More, Like

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