Inner Child Quotes - Page 3

• Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

  Tiger Woods

  Stories, Way, Facts

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• Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not born to die; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears— No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only sleep—and waking, I waked to sleep no more; at once o'ertaking The vanguard of my age, with all arrears Of duty on my back. Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is gray, For I have lost the race I never ran. A rathe December blights my lagging May: And still I am a child, though I be old Time is my debtor for my days untold.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sweet, Children, Sleep

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.13

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

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

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• The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

  Jim Carrey

  Running, Children

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Hate, Flower

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

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• Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

  JoAnn Ross

  Children, Editors, Heard

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• I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.

  Robert Englund

  Children, Kind, Horror

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• To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Heart, Eye

  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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• 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.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Children, Science

  "V 65: New Challenges for human communications, Volume 4". Book by International Center for the Typographic Arts, Southern Illinois University, 1965.

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• I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect, you try to heal your inner child. But as an activist, there's the outward, going wide therapy, where you get to realize at a certain point that talking about yourself gets boring. And it's also unhealthy to be so much into yourself. At some point, you have got to be able to look at the issue and say, "It's not about you. It's about a culture, a people, a nation, a family."

  Loung Ung

  Children, Writing, Journey

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inward, Lovers, Infancy

  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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• Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Animal, Self

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• Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Blue, Sky

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.52, Vintage

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Men, Two

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• Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

  Rachael Ray

  Children, Years, Apples

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• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Childhood, Adults, World

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• Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Children, War

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.147, Penguin

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• No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.

  Amy Winehouse

  Children, Thinking, Amy

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• I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Children, Years, Touching

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• Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.

  Richard Kadrey

  Hurt, Children, Sorry

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• My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

  Sheila Hancock

  Life, Children, Support

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• With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Song, Children, Writing

  "Michael Kiwanuka: For Those Who Think Young". Interview With Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2012.

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• Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Children, Opportunity, Modern Youth

  Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”

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