...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
Interpretation
Seeing the world with childlike wonder can make life feel less daunting.
Norton Juster's quote encourages maintaining a childlike perspective throughout life. This outlook fosters curiosity, wonder, and a lighthearted approach to challenges, suggesting that retaining this innocence allows one to navigate life with a sense of ease, as the potential for disappointment or heartache feels less severe.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life, someone might say, 'As Norton Juster reminds us, I'll continue to see things as a child.'
When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.
Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
In this box are all the words I know⦠Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.
There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.
From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.
No one would look at an infant baby asleep, and say 'What a lazy baby!' We know sleeping is non-negotiable for a baby. But that notion is quickly abandoned.
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
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