If I did not love what is ...

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
 Christian Morgenstern

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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.
 Christian Morgenstern
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
 Christian Morgenstern
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
 Christian Morgenstern
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
 Christian Morgenstern