The egoless child is still calmly sitting inside each of us. Buried in layers over layers of lies, egos, and personas. Happy nonetheless. Waiting to be found. — Mo Gawdat
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. — Barbra Streisand
We all have an infant inside of us, but the infant doesn't have to run the show. — Murray Bowen
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. — Bell Hooks
The creative adult is the child who has survived. — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child. — Lawren Harris
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. — Gaston Bachelard
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. — James Broughton
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? — Milton H. Erickson
Your soulmate is really this: the person who brings out your inner child. The person who makes you feel so truly safe that the kid inside you can come out. — Brianna Wiest
Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet. — Virginia Axline
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. — Arthur Rimbaud
My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of. — Akram Khan
Short Inner Child Quotes
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson
Within the child lies the fate of the future. — Maria Montessori
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. — Kailash Satyarthi
A man growing old becomes a child again. — Sophocles
If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content. — Dharma Mittra
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. — Andre Breton
To be an actor you have to be a child. — Paul Newman
Inner Child Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
My Inner Child Quotes
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. — Kitaro Nishida
My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. — Kenny Loggins
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
We are what we believe we are.
In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow. — Papiya Ghosh
It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again. — Wynonna Judd
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
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
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
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. — James Gunn
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
Your Inner Child Quotes
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. — Martha Beck
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. — Marianne Williamson
We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job." — Finn Wittrock
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness. — Wayne Dyer
It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child. — James Mattis
You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens. — Maurice Ashley
It is when you finally learn that your are all in your mind that your real life begins.
Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child. — Richard Kadrey
Inner Self Quotes
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
Listen to the inner light;
It will guide you.
Listen to the inner Peace;
It will feed you.
Listen to the inner Love;
It will transform you,
It will divinise you,
It will immortalise you. — Sri Chinmoy
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. — Viktor E. Frankl
Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves. — Milton H. Erickson
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. — Foster C. Mcclellan
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. — August Wilson
There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave. — Abraham Isaac Kook
Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. — Uell Stanley Andersen
Inner World Quotes
There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed. — Shams Tabrizi
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. — Saint Francis de Sales
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul. — G. I. Gurdjieff
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. — Emile M. Cioran
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. — Leonid Afremov
We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. — Thomas Keating
Inner Growth Quotes
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas
With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible. — Irwin Corey
If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.
I want people to find their inner depth. — Wim Hof
One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment. — Robert E. Quinn
Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace. — Candace Pert
Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.
We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change. — Amit Goswami
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. — Pearl S. Buck
Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt. — Donald Woods Winnicott
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman
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
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith
Whoever wants to understand much must play much. — Gottfried Benn
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. — Robert Fulghum
You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution. — Karel Appel
The wish to be super strong is a healthy wish, a vital compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world. — Sayings
Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food. — Charlotte Mason
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. — John Bradshaw
The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children. — Jim Henson
Children have neither past nor future;
they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. — Jean De La Bruyere
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before. — Jonathan Kozol
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
The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!' — Russell Howard
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. — Rachel Carson
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I never let the facts get in the way of the truth! — Farley Mowat
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. — Aberjhani
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life. — Maria Montessori
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
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. — Brennan Manning
Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. — Tiger Woods
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. — Maria Montessori
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. — Brian Aldiss
In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power. — Watchman Nee
Deep meaning lies often in childish play. — Friedrich Schiller
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