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title: "The End When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearl… — A. A. Milne Quote #13 | QuotesBy.net"
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> # The End When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

[A. A. Milne](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne)\#13

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## About this quote

What does it mean?A child reflects on growth and decides to stay at the age of six forever.In plain termsHe likes being six and wants to stay six forever.What can you take from it?Appreciate the age you are right now.

### Where it applies

- birthday parties
- growing pains
- self-reflection

### Putting it to work

- celebrate milestones
- accept change
- stay curious

### Questions to consider

- What age do you wish you could keep?
- How has your view of yourself changed?

### Another view

Staying six forever is impossible; growth brings new joys too.

## More from A. A. Milne

1. > We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it. -Eeyore

[Permalink to quote \#12](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/12/ "Permalink to quote 12")
2. > Alexander Beetle I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name, And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same. I put him in a matchbox, and I…

[Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/14/ "Permalink to quote 14")
3. > There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT…

[Permalink to quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne/11/ "Permalink to quote 11")

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1. > I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

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2. > A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious…

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3. > Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

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