Childlike Quotes

• Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

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• Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

  Catherine Doherty

  Hope, Darkness, Human Life

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty (2009). “Catherine de Hueck Doherty: Essential Writings”

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• You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

  Christopher Meloni

  Children, Fun, Want

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• Only the childlike consciousness is capable of understanding all that is beautiful in life, all that is great in existence. And the whole existence is full of greatness, full of glories. This is the only existence there is; its beauty, its truth, is the only beauty and the only truth. But they are available only to the innocent people. Blessed are the innocent, for theirs is the kingdom of God.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Blessed, Greatness

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• It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

  Charles Fillmore

  Children, Simplicity, Mind

  Charles Fillmore (2013). “Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

  Alan Watts

  Mind Blowing, Curiosity, Pushing

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• I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

  Billy Connolly

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

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• What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

  Todd Burpo

  Humility, Agendas, Guile

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Creativity

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  Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Hope, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.14, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

  Franz Kafka

  Down And, True Knowledge

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

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• A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wise, Simplicity, Mind

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• We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

  Bill Johnson

  Dream, Children, Needs

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• The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

  John Cleese

  Play, People, Creative

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• The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Simple, World

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.37, Om Books International

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• Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

  Randy Pausch

  Children, Helping Others, Important

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• You can be childlike without being childish.

  Christopher Meloni

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• The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.404, Princeton University Press

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• Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

  Brennan Manning

  Believe, Defining, Spirit

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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

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.229, Princeton University Press

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• As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

  Tim Vine

  Writing, Important, Able

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• To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Humor, Play

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