Innocence Quotes - Page 14

• The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Mother, Children, Body

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• Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.

  Shakti Gawain

  Education, Children, Taught Us

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, p.4, New World Library

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• It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.

  Pope Pius XI

  Grace, Church, Needs

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• Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lust, Delight, Becoming

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• Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

  Mary Sue Terry

  Death Penalty, Evidence, Irrelevant

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• It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Stars, Real

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Good Night, Hands

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2008). “The Stark Munro Letters: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

  Octavio Paz

  Fall, Past, Men

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Dream, Thinking

  Pierre bk. 4 (1852)

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• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

  Brian Eno

  Feelings, Want, Position

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• I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

  River Phoenix

  Way, Grew Up, Projects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Past

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 10, 2011

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• Like the Bible says.  A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence.  Didnt Jesus say bring on the children?  Be like the children.  Not childish, but child-like.  That kind of innocence.

  Michael Jackson

  Jesus, Children, Leader

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• The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a childs heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that. What we need to learn from children isnt childish. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. They know the way to solutions that lie waiting to be recognized within our own hearts.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Lying, Believe

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• I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

  John Lone

  Art, Age, Identity

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• The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Presumption Of Innocence, Jail

  "Hannity & Colmes", August 24, 2001.

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• Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

  Jackie Jackson

  Today, Mets, Stills

  "The Pilgrimage Of Jesse Jackson". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Believe, Lust, Too Much

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• No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, White, Black

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• The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Mean

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• Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

  Nick Gordon

  Sweet, Halloween, Treats

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• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  Ang Lee

  Birthday, Memories, Years

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