Top 52 Our Inner Child Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Our Inner Child

#1. Dreams are an extension of our inner child.

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

#3. When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Brennan Manning

#4. You city boys and your psychologists. Just what we need, some fancy-pants lollygaggin' around telling us all how we need to get in touch with our inner child...I find that little inner bastard and I'll choke the shit out of him for the hell of it.

~ Jackal ~

Lora Leigh

#5. We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.

Serina Hartwell

#6. It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

Wynonna Judd

#7. When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Adele Faber

#8. My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

Sheila Hancock

#9. Within us all is a radiant inner child bathed in joy.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#10. A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy strike the inner ear differently from those of pain.

Fred D'Aguiar

#11. We not only need to have a deep respect for children; but also a deep respect for the child in everyone.

C. JoyBell C.

#12. Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

Russell Howard

#13. The feminist in her railed at her for turning all melty when the man had just insinuated he owned her. But her inner child wearing the cone-shaped princess hat with flowing veil kicked the feminist right in the shins and told her to shut her yap. Xander

Gina L. Maxwell

#14. The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Fred Rogers

#15. Embrace your inner child!

D.L. Finn

#16. No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.

Jonathan Kozol

#17. He believed that kids who'd been slammed around needed to stick together, from start to finish. And he spotted others of his kind so easily. Because he recognized that his inner child was so fucked that he never got a chance to come out and play

S.E. Jakes

#18. I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.

Lev L. Spiro

#19. The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#21. I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#22. Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

Cheryl Richardson

#23. When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

Maria Montessori

#24. Simply read a child's story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.

John S. Savage

#25. A song for you
A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be

Patty Smith

#26. The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Peggy O'Mara

#27. The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#28. Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.

Grigoris Deoudis

#29. Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked.

"Not if I can avoid it, no.

David Eddings

#30. if you're reading this book, then you're also that child reading by flashlight and dreaming of other worlds. Don't be scared of her, that inner Beauty, or her dreams. Let her out. She's you, and she's me, and she's magic. There's

Meagan Spooner

#31. So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.

Steven D. Levitt

#32. After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

Anne Lamott

#33. I love and commit to nourishing my inner child.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#34. I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

John Bradshaw

#35. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#36. The modern adult, Jake had written, has really only one thing to say to its inner child: I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry

Glen Duncan

#37. When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad or angry?

C.J. Heck

#38. I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

Farley Mowat

#39. Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.

Charlotte Mason

#40. My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.

Thalia

#41. Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Maria Montessori

#42. Crusty and Cross here,' he says and I grin. He's still playful Fifty. My inner goddess is clapping her hands with glee like a small child.

E.L. James

#43. How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. For Anna, during this watch, each day had to pass like one endless moment.

Emma Donoghue

#44. But if you believe that adults can 'make' children learn well - in the absence of or in defiance of a child's inner sense of confident engagement with the power of discovery and mastery - then, in my view, you are placing that child at great risk of failure as a learner.

Kirsten Olson

#45. The balanced adult retains an inner child. The secret is to know when to put him away.

Anthony North

#46. In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.

Esai Morales

#47. It is a mistake to believe that a thought system based on lies is weak. Nothing made by a child of God is without power. It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will be unable to escape from the prison you have made.

Foundation For Inner Peace