Top 77 Sayings About The Inner Child
#1. The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.
Jim Carrey
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.
Wendy Kaminer
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. If you are never open to change things will remain the same, thereby driving you insane.
Clarine Williams
#16. Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
Julia Cameron
#18. 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
#19. The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
Peggy O'Mara
#20. 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
#22. 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
#23. The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim Henson
#24. 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
#25. In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
Lawren Harris
#26. Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
Maria Montessori
#27. The child of God has free access to the inner courts of heaven. "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." "Let us come boldly," says the apostle, "to the throne of the heavenly grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. 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
#30. The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
Leslie Stephen
#31. When my inner child tries to hold me back, I ignore the uproar and run the other way.
Charles F. Glassman
#32. The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child. A universe to fulfill a child.
Thomas Berry
#33. May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.
C.J. Heck
#34. Everything seemed possible, when I looked through they eyes of a child.
And every once in a while; I remember,
I still have the chance to be that wild.
Nikki Rowe
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I think the inner person is the most important ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
Julia Child
#39. The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.
Steven Franssen
#40. The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#41. And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
#42. No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
Lin Yutang
#43. When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey
#44. 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
#45. Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
Maria Montessori
#46. You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.
Karel Appel
#47. Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
Martha Beck
#48. The problem with inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish.
Shon Mehta
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. The balanced adult retains an inner child. The secret is to know when to put him away.
Anthony North
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
Farley Mowat
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
#60. After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
Anne Lamott
#61. 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
#62. A song for you
A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be
Patty Smith
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. A smartphone is an e-toy designed for the lonely inner child hidden in each and everyone of us.
Saurabh Sharma
#66. 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
#67. Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person
Cheryl Richardson
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. 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
#73. We not only need to have a deep respect for children; but also a deep respect for the child in everyone.
C. JoyBell C.
#74. Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'
Russell Howard
#75. 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
#76. The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
Fred Rogers
#77. 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
