Inner Child Quotations
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| When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. | |||
| - Brian Aldiss | |||
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| Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. | |||
| - Jean de La Bruyère | |||
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| I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. | |||
| - Leo Buscaglia | |||
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| A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. | |||
| - Rachel Carson | |||
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| Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. | |||
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton | |||
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| He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. | |||
| - Albert Einstein | |||
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| To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. | |||
| - Sigmund Freud | |||
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| Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. | |||
| - Robert Fulghum | |||
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| One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. | |||
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |||
| If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. | |||
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |||
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| A grownup is a child with layers on. | |||
| - Woody Harrelson | |||
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| When I grow up I want to be a little boy. | |||
| - Joseph Heller | |||
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| Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. | |||
| - Barbara Jordan | |||
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| When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot. | |||
| - Ray Kroc | |||
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| One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. | |||
| - Sam Levenson | |||
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| The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. | |||
| - Mencius | |||
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| In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. | |||
| - J. Robert Oppenheimer | |||
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| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. | |||
| - Pablo Picasso | |||
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| Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. | |||
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |||
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| Adults are obsolete children. | |||
| - Dr. Seuss | |||