Inner Child Quotes

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Adults are obsolete children.
- Dr. Seuss

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A grown up is a child with layers on.
- Woody Harrelson

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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
- Joseph Heller

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Everybody’s 12 years old in an apple orchard.
- Rachael Ray

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If you’re religious it gives you a perspective.
- Martha Beck

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I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
- Bob Seger

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The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
— Fred Rogers

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
- Mencius

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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Sainte Beuve

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The most sophisticated people I know inside they are all children.
- Jim Henson

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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
– Johann Wolfgang

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When you’re green you’re growing, and when you’re ripe you start to rot.
- Ray Kroc

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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
- Gaston Bachelard

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I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
- Martha Beck

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wolfgang

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don”t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
- Sam Levenson

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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things…. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
- Leo Buscaglia

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Sigmund Freud

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Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Saint Exupéry

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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