"If you're listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders." 
The flower offered of itself
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." 
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Great... is he who does not lose his child's-heart." ~Mencius, Book IV 
"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement... [a] clear-eyed vision [and] true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring." ~Rachel Carson 
"Like a forgotten fire, childhood can always flare up again within us." ~Gaston Bachelard
"I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work." ~Leo F. Buscaglia
"Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap." ~Robert Fulghum
"My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is." ~Ron Olson
"...Forget your years to-day and come
"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination." ~Sam Levenson
"The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult." ~Eugene Ionesco
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present." ~Jean de la Bruyere
"We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are... Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life." ~G.K. Chesterton
"Every child is an artist." ~Pablo Picasso
Treasure the magic of childhood in your heart and carry it with you through all your walks of life. Never stop searching for enchantment and beauty. 
All of the beautiful paintings are by the talented Greg Olsen. 
"No one ever forgives us for changing. They want us to be constant as the wind and always wear the same colours but we’re not meant to be that way. We’re supposed to be a little different each morning when we wake up... [to] become someone else wearing the same eyes. It’s a little uncomfortable, like a snake shedding skins. They never forgive [us] for changing but [we should] do it with passion because you need to die a little bit now and then to feel alive." (Princess Skye from "The Lost Princess")
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