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• Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

  Randy Pausch

  Thank You, Gratitude, Giving Up

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• We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Children, Father

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• A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

  Helen Keller

  Children, Simple, Sea

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

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• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

  Pablo Neruda

  Children, Men, Play

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• The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky...Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Children, Flower

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• It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Race, Touching

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.108, The Floating Press

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• I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

  Alan Price

  Song, Sometimes, Crosses

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• The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Quality, Actors

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• The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Thinking, Serendipity

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, Littles, Facts

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• It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

  David Canary

  Fun, Two, Doe

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• I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Business, Real, Flight

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• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Smile, Pain, Anger

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• One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

  Phil Foglio

  Book, Trying, Excited

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• Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Spring, Lying

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Forget”

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• Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Anger, Anxiety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.85, Ravenio Books

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• When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Life, Fun, Block

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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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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• Don’t complain; just work harder.

  Randy Pausch

  Success, Cards You're Dealt, Complaining

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

  Kurt Sutter

  Determination, Children, Artist

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• I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Fascination

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

  Brennan Manning

  Mean, Dependence, Acknowledgment

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• If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Simple, Joy

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• Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Children, Doors

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