...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.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
The Great Vessel takes long to complete.
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.
I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.
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