Quotes About Inner-child

Spending time in solitude with your artist child is essential to self-nurturing.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

sometimes you have to be the grown-up of your life and tell your inner child, who is kicking and screaming, "Get your shoes on. This is not optional. We have a play date.

One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

Turn on your heart light," who is going to magically heal us all. The only one who can turn on your heart light is you. The only one who can give your inner children healthy parenting is you. The only healer who can heal you is within you.

Until I started owning the grief and rage from my childhood, the sadness and hurt and fear that I had denied all of my life, I was incapable of being honest with myself, incapable of knowing who I Truly was.

The once-beaten children still living inside adults often fear being punished if they dare to truly SEE, without illusions, what their parents did to them in their first years of life. Once they understand that this danger no longer exists, they can liberate their life.

Por eso necesitamos adquirir otra vez la vitalidad y apertura del niño. No podemos permanecer infantiles, porque entonces no avanzaríamos en el proceso de nuestro desarrollo. El arte de vivir consiste por una parte en hacernos progresivamente más maduros y más adultos, pero por otra parte en conservar vivo en nosotros el niño interior.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

Even though no one else can give you what you missed as a child, this doesn't mean you are doomed to never receive it. There is one person who can give you what you missed on- what you so desperately need and desire. That person is you.

We go back . . . and back . . . and back . . . until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful and lovable child that was, and still is, in us. And once we find it, we love and cherish it, and never, never let it go.

At the core of every formerly mistreated adult —even high achievers—is a little child who feels powerless and afraid.

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is.

To take good care of ourselves, we must go back and take care of the wounded child inside of us. You have to practice going back to your wounded child every day. You have to embrace him or her terderly, like a big brother or a big sister. You have to talk to him, talk to her. And you can write a letter to the Little child in you, of two or three pages, to that you recognize his or her presence, and will do everything you can to heal his or her wounds.

You must go back to rescue the younger you from that wacky and distorted hall of mirrors. Because the meaning you made about yourself and your life—that you are bad, not wanted, not loved, too much, not enough, powerless, and/or destined to be alone in life—is simply not true.

the only person who can with absolute consistency be there for our inner children is us. And that's okay. That's enough. Once we learn how to do it.

With the help of parents, other authority figures, and institutions (such as education, organized religion, politics, the media, and even some psychotherapy), most of us learn to stifle or deny our Child Within. When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges. I further describe these two parts of each of us in Table 1. (See page 10).

When I'm all alone and I'm by myself, little Peter keeps me company.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

When you learn how to re-parent yourself, you will stop attempting to complete the past by setting up others to be your parents.

We need to teach our inner child that problems are normal and that he must accept them.