Inner Child Quotes - Page 2

• Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

  Gottfried Benn

  Education, Play, Want

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• Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

  Rob Cantrell

  Children, Men, People

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• After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Soul, Middle

  Anne Lamott (1986). “Joe Jones”, Ballantine Books

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• The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Eye, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• My inner child is not wounded.

  Shannen Doherty

  Funny, Witty, Children

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• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Children

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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

  Missing You, Wisdom, Children

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• Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

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• When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Children, Angel, Heaven

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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

  Running, Nature, Wind

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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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• Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

  Bob Seger

  Expression, Wish, Knows

  Song: Against The Wind, Album: Against the Wind, 1980

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, World

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

  Kenny Loggins

  Children, Lost Love, Cat

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

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• The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Opposites, Play, Design

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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-Exupery

  Children, Forever, Understanding

  Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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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

  Inspirational, Children, Imagination

  Sam Levenson (1969). “Sex and the Single Child”

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• We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."

  Finn Wittrock

  Sweet, Jobs, Children

  Source: collider.com

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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

  Food, Anger, Thinking

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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

  Love, Fear, Children

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• Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

  Israel Zangwill

  Children, Father, Simple

  Israel Zangwill (1925). “Works”

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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. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

  Robert Fulghum

  People, Imagination, Secret

  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1986.

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• Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Poetry, Soul

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• The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Reality, Playing Outside

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

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