Children Quote by Brennan Manning

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor…

— Peter Matthiessen

The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way…

— Shefali Tsabary

“At any moment of the day, some desire is in the process of coming true. Old seeds we planted (and perhaps forgot about) are…

— Deepak Chopra

“Upon watching a young child do, explore, or create something, you are witnessing an unconditioned essential spirit willing itself into direct action towards a…

— Garry Fitchett

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work,…

— Maria Montessori

The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is…

— Erik Erikson

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

— Frederick Lenz

If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an…

— Maria Montessori

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that…

— Rachel Carson

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that…

— Maxine Greene

“Babies hold a secret about the human mind that has been hidden for millennia. They are our double. They have a primordial drive to…

— Scott R. Garrels

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an…

— Prentice Mulford