Quotes on Inner Child

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.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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

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.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

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

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

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.

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

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

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

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

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

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses_x000D_ are still truly adjusted to each other.

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.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.