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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
Sep 10, 2025
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
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.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.
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.
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.
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.
I don't care about the past.
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
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.
In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
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.
Deep meaning lies often in childish play.
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Whoever wants to understand much must play much.
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.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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?"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.
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.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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.
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
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.
Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
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."
It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.