{"quotes":[{"text":"Childishness and childlikeness are two very different things. To know a childlike person, is to know a very mature person; to know a childish person, is to know a very immature person. To know childlikeness is to know original wisdom; to know childishness is to know original error. And there are many children more mature than adults, many adults less mature than children.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["childishness","childlikeness","immaturity","inspirational","maturity","wisdom"],"id":62600,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","bossy","child","childishness","control","desire","ego","equality","family","friend","friends","friendship","friendships","friendships-and-love","humble","humility","immaturity","inclination","inequality","love","love-and-friendship","maturity","narcissism","parent","pride","psychology","relationship","results","selfishness","selflessness","sociology","uselessness"],"id":62712,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["adult","childishness","maturity"],"id":98617,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anger","apologetics","argument","ity","beliefs","childishness","debate","disagreement","humility","insecure","opinions","reason","spite"],"id":115402,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","bad-company","bad-friends","bad-influence","be-yourself","behaviour","believe-in-yourself","callow","childishness","company","etiquette","good-behaviour","good-quality","immature","immaturity","maturity","mediocre","mediocrity","negative-influence","negative-people","outstanding","peculiar","peculiarity","presence","quality","sensitivity","single","stand-alone"],"id":168802,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"If you'd only let me come by myself, none of this would have happened. Having you around makes everything worse.'She buried her head under her pillow. 'Stop it! You're so cold! You're heartless, you little robot!' The pillow muffled her words, but they still. ","author":"Natalie Standiford","tags":["childishness","heartbreak","manipulative-mother"],"id":227154,"author_id":"Natalie+Standiford"},{"text":"When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","antisocial","attitude","breakup","childish","childishness","complain","complaining","complexity","difficult-person","disregard","fail","fun","insult","insults","open-minded","peculiarity","people","rejection","remember","simplicity","snob","social-life","squabble","underate","underestimate","underestimation"],"id":229874,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Out of curiosity, when do I grow up and become a fullfledgedman with a penis?”“When words like ‘hump day’ don’t make you giggle like atwelve-year-old,” he retorted, blowing smoke my way.“Wow, that long?","author":"Dani Alexander","tags":["childishness","growing-up","humor","hump-day"],"id":268188,"author_id":"Dani+Alexander"},{"text":"When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["black-and-white","childish","childishness","differences","different","god","grey","greyness","growing","growth","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational","learning","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","living","living-life","right-and-wrong","wrong-and-right"],"id":268439,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing, open to every whim of fate, the homeless wanderers lead their childlike, brave, shabby existence. They are the sons of Adam, who was driven out of Paradise; the brothers of the animals, of innocence. Out of heaven's hand they accept what is given them from moment to moment: sun, rain, fog, snow, warmth, cold, comfort, and hardship; time does not exist for them and neither does history, or ambition, or that bizarre idol called progress and evolution, in which houseowners believe so desperately. A wayfarer may be delicate or crude, artful or awkward, brave or cowardly—he is always a child at heart, living in the first day of creation, before the beginning of the history of the world, his life always guided by a few simple instincts and needs. He may be intelligent or stupid; he may be deeply aware of the fleeting fragility of all living things, of how pettily and fearfully each living creature carries its bit of warm blood through the glaciers of cosmic space, or he may merely follow the commands of his poor stomach with childlike greed—he is always the opponent, the deadly enemy of the established proprietor, who hates him, despises him, or fears him, because he does not wish to be reminded that all existence is transitory, that life is constantly wilting, that merciless icy death fills the cosmos all around.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["childishness","death","freedom","innocence","wanderer","wayfarer"],"id":288173,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}