Quotes About Childlike

He seems to think I'm about five, the way he's treating me.' Lizzie took the lantern and placed in on a table. 'I don't suppose you had anything to do with that, didn't you?' 'Oh no,' I said, eyes round and innocent.

I was indeed in love with you. Though I was perhaps awkward about it, my love was constant. But the unhappy state of affairs was that I could affirm this love through awkwardness alone. I was like a child who cannot go on his school outing; at this point I could only be jealous of others.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

Babies smile without any reason. Be like a baby.

A true sage is simple like a child.

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.

My heart panted after this—to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God, might be all, that I might become as a little child. …

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Keep your sense of humor, and approach new experiences with a childlike sense of wonder. Allow your creativity to flourish and accept the mistakes that will inevitably come. Embrace unfamiliarity and give yourself the grace to find your footing.

They're naive.

Reading books for pleasure, of course, is the greatest joy. No need to underline, press on, try out mentally summarizing or evaluating phrases. One is free to read as a child reads—no duties, no goals, no responsibilities, no clock ticking: pure rapture.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

His eyes. Unclouded by cynicism, questioning but with a certainty that there were answers, warmly innocent in some strange way. A child's eyes, she thought. Even more irresistible when set in a man's face.

Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the studio.