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• Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Doe, Divine, Existence

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• Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.

  Vivian Gornick

  Love, Girl, Miscarriage

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• All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

  Rockwell Kent

  Reality, Men, Looks

  Rockwell Kent (2000). “Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan”, p.40, Wesleyan University Press

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• I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

  Vera Brosgol

  Thinking, Wind, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  "My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933".

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• There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it.

  William Herbert Sheldon

  Learning, People, Curiosity

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• I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

  Hillary Scott

  Christmas, Innocence, Spirit

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• The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Real, Self

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• I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

  Arianna Huffington

  Thinking, Ideas, Skins

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• To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.

  Nita Leland

  Children, Creative, Delight

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.19, North Light Books

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• He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cute, Cat, Hands

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.62, Penguin

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• Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

  Rupert Giles

  Nice, Elements, Computer

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• Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

  John Tilbury

  Humorous, Giving, Vitality

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• He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound compassion toward others. It can rarely be said of an individual that his life touched many others and affected them for the better; it will be said of Francis Schaeffer that his life touched millions of souls and brought them to the truth of their creator.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Compassion, Long

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• I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Art, Optimistic, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an ice cream cone, coloring a picture, or jumping rope. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as a child and choose one of these activities to do today.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Fun, Writing

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• People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Kids, People

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• I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

  George Carlin

  Sweet, Innocent

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• Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world where the opinions of other human beings can have such an effect on our motives. But it will help us recognize this truth: God is close to us and aware of us and never hides from His faithful children.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Feelings, Faithful

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• I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

  Drew Barrymore

  Fun, Optimistic, Dark

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• A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Memories, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Giving Up, Growing Up

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• Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Pride, Childhood

  Saint Augustine (1847). “Expositions on the Book of Psalms”, p.563, Lulu.com

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• I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Comedian, Stills

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