Doug Henning Quotes

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

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

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

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.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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.

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

When you look at children, they're so beautiful, and they seem so peaceful because their faces aren't all wrinkly and worried. They're like beautiful little pieces of pottery or something. You want to think they have this peace because they have no big responsibilities, but it's just not true.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

When you're little, first of all, everybody smiles at you because you're cute, so you think the world is great. And everything is so vivid. You know, you're not clouded out by anxiety, and you don't miss things.

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

I've always loved magic.

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

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.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.