The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness Quotes

“But because kids today have so little free time, and because they’re always surrounded by media, they don’t explore what’s off the beaten path. They want their fun to be quick and easy. The art of being bored is lost.” . . . There’s no question that Klauber’s findings are”
― Edward M. Hallowell, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy

“When we have a child, we take a leap off a cliff into magical air. We never stand on solid ground again. The updrafts and the downdrafts in this air are like none other. We soar, we glide, then we hit turbulence and hold on tight until the storm breaks and a cool morning breeze lifts us onward. We learn fear that we’ve never known, joy that we’ve never felt, and uncertainty that knows no bounds. In that air we know the best in life, even if we collide at times with the worst.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy

“Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen.” His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named “flow.” In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy