The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.
Interpretation
Childhood experiences provide valuable life lessons that can guide us throughout our lives.
This quote by Flannery O'Connor suggests that the challenges and experiences faced during childhood equip individuals with essential knowledge about life. If one cannot learn and grow from the small experiences of youth, it is unlikely that they will cope effectively with the more significant challenges that come later in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about perseverance in life.
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.
Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
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