Childlike Quotes · Page 2

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

— Beck

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

— Catherine Doherty

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Claire Bloom

I think it is important to learn to distinguish between being childlike and being childish.

— Anonymous

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

— Hermann Hesse

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

— Laurence Fishburne

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once…

— Ernest Becker

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

— Christopher Meloni

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant,…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“He bent close to me, and suddenly kissed me, in a manner that seemed entirely childlike and also a bit European.”

— Anne Rice

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

— Hillary Scott

There is a childlike wonder in my work. Even 'Los Espookys' is like a live-action cartoon. There's something untethered and free that…

— Julio Torres

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by…

— Henry Francis Lyte

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister…

— Andy Warhol

He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“In some Christian circles the biblical call to a childlike faith has been elevated to a spiritual ideal that radically distorts the…

— R.C. Sproul

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that…

— Paula Scher

It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or…

— Santino Fontana

Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this…

— Rajneesh

What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the…

— Emma Goldman

My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions.…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

“She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They…

— Ted Dekker

If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna…

— Jerry Lewis

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,…

— Anonymous

It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

— Helen Keller

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

— Mehmet Oz

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

— George Carlin

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

— Arianna Huffington

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

— Franz Kafka

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

— Karel Appel

“Perhaps, people of our kind can’t love. The childlike people can; that’s their secret.”

— Hermann Hesse