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Quotes About Childlike

My only hope for my future is I learn to dot the landscape of my life once more with question marks instead of periods. To turn judgments into queries. To turn "this" into "that?" To make every problem a maze. To be like a six-year-old.
~ James Altucher
Innocence is the source of love.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Wisdom comes only with innocence.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen?
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
~ Barry Gibb
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
~ Confucius
To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
~ Ernest Becker
No point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish.
~ Terrance Dicks
Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties.
~ Terri Guillemets
unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an artist this may have some advantages.
~ Thomas DeBaggio
I am just winking happy thoughts into a little tiddle cup.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Feelings are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.
~ Lauren Myracle
I didn't say it was dumb. It's what you feel,and guess what?Feelings are like 3yr. olds.They're not rational. They're just there.
~ Lauren Myracle
I skip for that all-over body tickle.
~ John Olesen, 2008
I like to skip because I can't help but smile when I'm skipping (either I'm too uncoordinated to frown and skip at the same time or else it's a physical impossibility)!
~ Nancy, courtesy of iSkip.com
I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.
~ Kurt Sutter
A lot of people think I must be like Vince Noir. He's a bit like a child. He doesn't have any malice. He's even friendly to monsters. I am like that, I guess. I talk to anyone.
~ Noel Fielding
Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
~ Adam Peaty
I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
~ Orhan Pamuk
PriveÈ™te-l în adâncul ochilor; are o inim? ca de copil, atât de curat?, atât de singuratic?!
~ Orhan Pamuk
Elemak pulled the shower cord before he soaped. The moment the water hit him he yowled, and then did his own little splash dance, shaking his head and flipping water all over the courtyard while jabbering "ooga-booga looga-booga" just like a little kid.
~ Orson Scott Card
Yo creo que la verdad siempre es simple. Y lo es por fuerza. Tiene que ser lo bastante simple para que la entienda un niño.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ils sont tous ivres morts dice de Foxâ a bassa voce, stringendomi il braccio. Je commence à avoir peur. Allora io gli dico: Non mostrare di aver paura, per l'amor di Dio! Se si accorgono che hai paura, sono capaci di offendersi. Non sono cattivi: ma quando hanno bevuto, diventano come bambini. Non sono cattivi, lo so, dice de Foxâ son come bambini. Ma io ho paura dei bambini.
~ Curzio Malaparte