Inner Child Quotes - Page 4

• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Childhood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Adults, Sun

  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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• That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

  Children, Unhappy Childhood, Decay

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• I don't care about the past.

  Eric Cantona

  Past, Care, Four Agreements

  "Attack on fan was a 'dream' for supporters, admits Eric Cantona" by Gregg Roughley, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

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• All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

  Robert Fulghum

  Teaching, Learning, Needs

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, Ivy Books

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• O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Heart, Men

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• I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

  Farley Mowat

  Way, Facts

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult.

  Ron Bennington

  Children, Worry Less, People

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• Contemporary American psychiatrist
  It is a happy talent to know how to play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Childhood

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