Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I feel like I died as a child.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there were people who didn't have that. There are a lot of teens who haven't had as easy a childhood as me, and having literature that explores these "darker" parts helps relieve the burden and stress they may be feeling. As a writer, there is often a temptation to draw back when we write for teens - to preserve their innocence. But the reality is, if someone has already had that innocence taken in their life, then not writing about it is just brushing it under the rug.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them