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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Fun, Real

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  Beck

  Thinking, Play, Quality

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• Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

  Brennan Manning

  Father, Risk, Path

  Brennan Manning (2010). “Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

  Charles Studd

  Simple, Missionary, Different

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• "God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them?
  I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.692, Modern Library

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• I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

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• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Self, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.30, Om Books International

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• Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Gay, Mirth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, World, This World

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.22, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Mean, Interesting

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• There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Truth, Humility, Goal

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.141

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• A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

  Todd Burpo

  Mom, Daughter, Morning

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• My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Father, Violence

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 351, 1895.

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• I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

  Zachary Levi

  Taken, Innocent, Small Parts

  RELEVANT magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. April 30, 2003.

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• I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Growing Up, Magic

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

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• It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.

  Charles Brent

  Moving, Humility, Goes On

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• A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Common Sense, Novelists, Belief

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• [In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

  May Sarton

  Age, Innocence, Moments

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over.

  Jerry Lewis

  Thinking, Laughing, People

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• He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Miracle, Magic

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• Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Real, Two

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.385, Ballantine Books

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