...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.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.
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