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“So runs my dream, but what am I?
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but a cry.”
― Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?”
― Roman Payne

“To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and arrogance prevent them from doing so. Therefore, they will always remain ignorant. Those on the right path to Truth are extremely heart-driven and childlike in their quest, always asking questions, always wanting to understand and know everything �� and are not afraid to admit they don't know something. However, every truth seeker does need to breakdown their ego first to see Truth. If the mind is in the way, the heart won't see anything.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is childish to envy someone for something you do not need.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There was a sort of innocence to him, I thought. I do not mean this as the poets mean it: a virtue to be broken by the story’s end, or else upheld at greatest cost. Nor do I mean that he was foolish or guileless. I mean that he was made only of himself, without the dregs that clog the rest of us.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Maturity is when you let your inner child speak and your adult self listen without any bondages”
― Henna Sohail

“The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life �� when the real you comes out, when you don’t care about the past and you don’t worry about the future. You are childlike. But there is something that changes all that: We call them responsibilities.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, Οι Τέσσερις Συμφωνίες

“To quench the thirst for deeper love and stronger bonds, one must remember to laugh and love like a child.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

“It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most adult geniuses are more playful than most children.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Isn't it amazing, how the opposite of childishness is childlikeness?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I am youth. I am joy. I am freedom!�� said Peter Pan.”
― J.M. Barrie

“Always have a childlike wonder in your heart, even as your view of the world changes.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“You needn't instruct me to think about my children's welfare," Phoebe said quietly. "I've always put them first, and always will. As for me being a child... I'm afraid I'm not nearly enough like one." A faint smile touched her lips. "Children are optimistic. They have a natural sense of adventure. To them, the world has no limitations, only possibilities. Henry was always a bit childlike in that way- he never became disenchanted with life. That was what I loved most about him."
"If you loved Henry, you will honor his wishes. He wanted Edward to have charge of his family and estate."
"Henry wanted to make sure our future would be in capable hands. But it already is."
"Yes. Edward's."
"No, mine. I'll learn everything I need to know about managing this estate. I'll hire people to help me if necessary. I'll have this place thriving. I don't need a husband to do it for me. If I marry again, it will be to a man of my choosing, in my own time. I can't promise it will be Edward. I've changed during the past two years, but so far, he doesn't see me for who I am, only who I was. For that matter, he doesn't see how the world has changed- he ignores the realities he doesn't like. How can I trust him with our future?"
Georgiana regarded her bitterly. "Edward is not the one who is ignoring reality. How can you imagine yourself capable of running this estate?"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"Women aren't capable of leadership. Our intelligence is no less than men's, but it is shaped for the purpose of motherhood. We're clever enough to operate the sewing machine, but not to have invented it. If you asked the opinions of a thousand people whether they would trust you or Edward to make decisions for the estate, whom do you think they would choose?"
"I'm not going to ask a thousand people for their opinions," Phoebe said evenly. "Only one opinion is required, and it happens to be mine." She went to the doorway and paused, unable to resist adding, "That's leadership."
And she left the dowager fuming in silence.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil's Daughter

“Ned had the childlike intensity of someone who wanted the world to be stranger than it was. Someone who thought they could believe magic into being.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“There are walks of pain—the pacing-around-your-house-lonesome-heartbreak kind. There are walks of joy—leaping and bold, ecstatic with good news. There are walks of new beginnings—the first steps of a child or a young woman learning to become like a child again.

And there are hornets�� nests of walks that sting you with living terror.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Peter

“And beside the slides and the monkey bars of youth, the eternity of the swing lay like a forgotten child.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Peter

“Life requires a childlike approach to grasp what a miracle it is to just live.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, A Heart Made of Tissue Paper

“The problem with being an adult most of your life is not having been a child long enough.

(08/26/2019)”
― Wyatt Pringle

“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be born old and fragile but with all the wisdom you will need for life and to grow younger and more energetic as you progress through life and when you die you are like a child, carefree and happy? To start life wise and end it having used all the wisdom and knowledge for good.”
― Paddick Van Zyl

“It's a universal instinct of the human species, isn't it, that desire to dress up in some sort of disguise?" said Frank.

"I must be very inhuman then," said Maxim.

"It's natural, I suppose," said Colonel Julyan, "for all of us to wish to look different. We are all children in some ways.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Trust the guidance. Be childlike at your heart so you may experience the change as intended for your growth.”
― Ujjwal Arora, Healing Sole to Soul

“I couldn't imagine what Henry was doing, but as disconnected as his actions seemed, I had a childlike faith in him and, as confidently as Dr Watson observing the actions of his more illustrious friend, I waited for the design to manifest itself.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life �� when the real you comes out, when you don’t care about the past and you don’t worry about the future. You are childlike.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“However easily he succeeded in talking to all of them, in living with all of them, in learning from all of them, he was still aware that there was something which separated him from them and this separating factor was him being a Samana. He saw mankind going through life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time. He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured, he saw them scolding and insulting each other, he saw them complaining about pain at which a Samana would only smile, and suffering because of deprivations which a Samana would not feel.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Florrie studies him. From her lower viewpoint, she sees his pores and wrinkles, and a thumbprint on one of his lenses. There is, too, a nick of a razor near his bottom lip- and it reminds her once more that this elderly gent is still a boy, in some ways, as she is still a girl, fashioning a trumpet out of a rolled-up newspaper or chasing Bobs down the garden. She’s still blowing out ten birthday candles. We don’t leave the children we were. We simply grow around them like a tree will, in the end, grow around a bicycle that’s been left against them.”
― Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

“A long line of statues accompany the path, covered in moss and white blotches. But they’re not the angelic forms I had expected. They cower, slight and childlike.”
― Rebecca Delphine, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“Fear of the dark is the most childlike fear. Tales of terror are customarily told "around the campfire" or at least after sundown, because what is laughable in the sunshine is often tougher to smile at by starlight.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

“Have a nice day,�� she said, waving. Which people said all the time, and probably didn’t really mean, but I swear, in that moment, she sounded like she really meant it. Like she genuinely hoped I’d have an especially nice
day.”
― Laurel Snyder, My Jasper June