Rajneesh Quotes

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

There are children with dreams counting on us.

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.