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Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind. -- Joseph Campbell
We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind. -- Mariella Frostrup
For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe. -- Krista Tippett
I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger. -- Steven Millhauser
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back. -- Khaled Hosseini
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss. -- Sarah Addison Allen
When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. -- Anna Brownell Jameson

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