Top 100 Quotes About Inner Child
#1. So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.
Steven D. Levitt
#3. I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
#4. 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
#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. 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
#7. 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
#8. The balanced adult retains an inner child. The secret is to know when to put him away.
Anthony North
#9. 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
#10. The problem with inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish.
Shon Mehta
#11. Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
Martha Beck
#13. The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.
Jim Carrey
#15. 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
#16. Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'
Russell Howard
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Dreams are an extension of our inner child.
Fan T. C.
#22. Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person
Cheryl Richardson
#23. A smartphone is an e-toy designed for the lonely inner child hidden in each and everyone of us.
Saurabh Sharma
#24. No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.
Amy Winehouse
#25. We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."
Finn Wittrock
#26. But there still seemed to be no clear answers. Do you take care of others or take care of your "inner child"? Return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless? Seek success or seek simplicity? Just Say No or Just Do It?
Mitch Albom
#27. Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.
JoAnn Ross
#28. Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.
Jaeda DeWalt
#29. The endless list of do's and don'ts handed down while growing up, gradually and unconsciously distance us from the inner child.
Santosh Joshi
#30. I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I'd just been born?
Sol Luckman
#31. When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.
Wendy Kaminer
#33. One hundred years of age doesn't mean you have to bury your inner child. You age better if you hold onto a little petulance and let it out now and again.
R.R. Virdi
#34. Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born.
Starhawk
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Where was my inner plucky heroine? Probably having cupcakes with my inner child and my inner diva. I had a feeling they did that a lot.
Elizabeth A. Reeves
#41. Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.
Rob Cantrell
#43. That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
James Gunn
#44. 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
#45. I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
James Broughton
#46. When my inner child tries to hold me back, I ignore the uproar and run the other way.
Charles F. Glassman
#47. 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.
Martin Seligman
#48. Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original."
Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.
Jim Butcher
#49. I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult.
Ron Bennington
#50. Some people think ignoring their inner child makes them seem grown-up. When I see someone ignoring a crying child, I think they're an asshole.
Jay Bell
#51. My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
Kenny Loggins
#52. We are all children that need nurturing, love and care. So give your inner child that nurturing and love, give yourself back the joy of preparing healthy and nutritious meals, joy of experiencing food without TV, reading, working, rush.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#53. Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.
Gore Verbinski
#54. Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.
Richard Kadrey
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
Anne Lamott
#58. 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
#59. I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
Farley Mowat
#60. 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
#61. Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked.
"Not if I can avoid it, no.
David Eddings
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshness
Peace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#67. You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.
Karel Appel
#68. Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
Maria Montessori
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
Fred Rogers
#72. We not only need to have a deep respect for children; but also a deep respect for the child in everyone.
C. JoyBell C.
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.
Wayne Dyer
#80. A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Miller
#81. A song for you
A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be
Patty Smith
#82. She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.
H. Raven Rose
#83. I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies ...
Neil Gaiman
#84. Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
Maria Montessori
#85. Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.
Ellyn Satter
#86. In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
Lawren Harris
#87. If you want to be a good parent please heal your own wounds, heal all of them and be confident that you've done so before you seriously consider having children. The unresolved child within you is the real child you need to embrace and heal and raise.
Daniel Mackler
#88. The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim Henson
#89. If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#90. I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.
Maureen Brady
#91. I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.
Ingrid Betancourt
#92. People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams - "Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59
Dean Koontz
#93. It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.
Susan Cain
#95. The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
Peggy O'Mara
#96. One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.
Maria Montessori
#97. Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
Julia Cameron
#98. If you are never open to change things will remain the same, thereby driving you insane.
Clarine Williams
#99. Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. A child with minimal video and TV exposure ... might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated in inner direction, self-discipline, and the realities of her actual physical world.
Diane Medved
