Quotes About Purity And Innocence

#1. Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.

Frederick H. Evans

#2. Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

Lena Dunham

#3. Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

Pete Docter

#4. We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

Federico Fellini

#5. Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

Doug Henning

#6. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart.

H.B. Paull

#7. Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity ...

J. Valor

#9. Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same ...

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#10. I was in love with the innocence of dogs, the purity of their affection. They didn't know enough to hide their feelings. They existed. A dog was a dog. There was such a simple elegance about being a dog that I envied.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#11. A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.

Rajneesh

#12. Most parents are so convinced of their little darling's innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for junior's purity they come to believe in their own innocence - as if duplicating oneself will make a right!

Anthony Marais

#13. I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

Bat For Lashes

#14. Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

Rajneesh

#15. Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. There wasn't a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just ate its fruits and roamed its wilds and didn't need anyone.

Joanna Chambers

#17. See the world with the innocence of children.
Approach the world with the daring of children.
Love the world with the readiness of children.
Heal the world with the purity of children.
Change the world with the wisdom of children.

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

Anil Kapoor

#19. We are all the same and need to think that we are innocent. However, we do blame others just to be innocent. We simply believe blaming will wash out ourselves. More we search innocence more we blame others. What we need to understand our purity instead of trying to prove that we are blameless.

Umut Kisa

#20. If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

John Hennessy

#21. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Selena Kitt

#22. Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#23. Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity.

Oswald Chambers

#24. Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.

William Maxwell

#26. Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

John Milton

#27. The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Ruth Bernhard

#28. We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.

James Rozoff

#29. Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Ian McEwan

#30. There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

Suzy Kassem

#31. There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

Shane Claiborne

#32. The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

Francois Mauriac

#33. Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way.

C. JoyBell C.

#34. My passionate puritan!

Violet Winspear