I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund FreudRead
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
It's never to late for a happy childhood.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away
I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.
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