Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

There is a child in all of us.

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

We learn many things from children, always.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that's so joyful about being around little one's is that they haven't absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.

We just want people to feel something that they've never felt before. Or at least, something they haven't felt since they were little kids.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his eye so totally; just a butterfly, its beautiful colors, and he is enchanted; the rainbow in the sky... and he cannot conceive that there can be anything more significant, richer than this rainbow. And the night full of stars, stars beyond stars... Innocence is rich, it is full, it is pure.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.