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Quotes About Childlike

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
~ Tryon Edwards
I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
~ Hillary Scott
Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.
~ Sandra Bullock
Olvídate de la grandeza; busca la pequeñez. Confía más; presume menos. Haz muchas peticiones y acepta todos los regalos. Acércate a Dios igual que un niño se acerca a su papito.
~ Max Lucado
It was like being lectured by an earnest, oversized child.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.
~ Becky G
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
~ Kenneth Branagh
I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
~ Coco Lee
A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child's playful obliviousness.
~ Josh Waitzkin
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
~ John Shirley
I think there's an innocence to me.
~ Krista Allen
I'm still very much a kid inside myself.
~ Prince Harry
Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.
~ Federico Fellini
We say to our children, "Act like grown-ups," but Jesus said to the grown-ups, "Be like children.
~ Billy Graham
I'm half child, half ancient.
~ Bjork
Now I know better. The secret to aging more cheerfully is to play like a child.
~ Heather Lende
Our characters act silly, even totally ridiculous at times, and most of our jokes don't come out of pop cultural references. It seems like we're aiming at a child audience, but everyone can laugh at the basic human traits that are funny. It's playful, the humor is playful, the world is playful. You can kind of let go.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
Sometimes agents were so influenced by one another that they lost track of their goal and did something else instead. In that sense, the program was very childlike, unpredictable and easily distracted. As one programmer put it - trying to program distributed intelligence is like telling a five year old kid to go to his room and change his clothes. He may do that, but he is equally likely to do something else and never return.
~ Michael Crichton
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise, just as it is in the eyes of the Childlike Empress. You may only search and inquire, never judge. Always remember that, Atreyu!
~ Michael Ende
I always felt a bit like a child in all this but having the eyes of a child and a sense of awe and no firmly held perspective to begin with was how I could help in some small way. I never had anything to unlearn.
~ Michael Lewis
There is another word for this extremist noticing—this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness, by the already-been-theres and seen-thats of the adult mind—and that word, of course, is wonder.
~ Michael Pollan
LSD appears to disable such conventionalized, shorthand modes of perception and, by doing so, restores a childlike immediacy, and sense of wonder, to our experience of reality, as if we were seeing everything for the first time. (Leaves!)
~ Michael Pollan
I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
~ Adam Peaty
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
~ Bill Bryson