Inner Child Quotes inspire and guide individuals to connect with their childlike inner self helping them explore emotions, childhood experiences and heal emotional wounds.
These quotes encourage people to be playful curious and present in daily life highlighting the importance of addressing unmet childhood needs.
They offer a path to acknowledging and nurturing one’s inner child a crucial aspect of personal development.
The inner child represents a person’s childlike aspects and is an essential part of the subconscious holding emotions experiences and memories.
Healing the inner child especially if it carries trauma is vital for responding maturely to adult challenges.
These quotes serve as reminders to care for and embrace one’s inner child contributing to overall happiness and self-care.
Best Inner Child Quotes
Within us, all is a radiant inner child bathed in joy. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree.
We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts. ~ Terri Guillemets.
Unleash your inner child, be a little wild. ~ Laura E. Brusseau.
The problem with the inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish. ~ Shon Mehta.
My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. ~ Ron Olson.
Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random stuff at me all day. ~ Rob Cantrell.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead. ~ Albert Einstein.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~ Sigmund Freud.
I am animated by my joyful life. I let my inner child feel loved and experience joy every day. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree.
The inner child runs rampant. They’re just smaller, that’s all. ~ Jim Carrey.
Your inner child still needs to be loved in order to heal the complete self. ~ Karen A. Baquiran.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. ~ Brian Aldiss.
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Powerful Heal Your Inner Child Quotes
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven. ~ Wendy Kaminer.
The most sophisticated people I’ve ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children. ~ Jim Henson
Many of us are guilty of not taking enough time to dial into our inner child’s voice. ~ Kim Ha Campbell.
Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart. ~ Mencius.
Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground. ~ Jaeda DeWalt
Above all, never let age extinguish your inner child. ~ S. Ajna.
The wound is not my fault. But the healing is my responsibility. ~ Marianne Williamson.
Hello, inner child, I’m the inner babysitter! ~ Terry Pratchett.
In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
Above all, never let age extinguish the fire of your inner child. ~ S. Ajna
Everybody’s twelve years old in an apple orchard. ~ Rachael Ray.
Your inner child is waiting for a genuine, heartfelt apology. ~ Yong Kang Chan.
Realistic Inner Child Quotes
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
A playful path is the shortest road to happiness ~ Bernie DeKoven
I think my inner child wants to take over the world. ~ Mark Foster.
We may never know exactly when or how this began, but if we acknowledge this little one, she will somehow know that we are listening to her. ~ Bonnie Badenoch
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ~ Gaston Bachelard
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. ~ Brian Aldiss.
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
Growing up is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Inner child, what do you suggest? ‘I want a treehouse!’ Anything else to add? ‘Farty noise under the arm!’ ~ Russell Howard.
The process of reclaiming your wounded inner child is a forgiveness process. Forgiveness allows us to give as before. It heals the past and frees our energies for the present. ~ John Bradshaw
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ E.E. Cummings
I’ve promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again. ~ Wynonna Judd.
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch.
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Quotes about Inner Child
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
I’d like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult. ~ Ron Bennington.
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever. ~ Mary Jo Putney.
By staying open-minded and listening to the needs and desires of your inner child, you open yourself up to the possibilities of anything… ~ Kim Ha Campbell.
Inner child work is essential. It’s the essence of growth as a whole person ~ Cheryl Richardson.
I think my inner child wants to take over the world. ~ Mark Foster.
Never underestimate the importance of having fun ~ Randy Pausch.
The world doesn’t have to lose it’s magic just because you lost your pigtails. ~ Amber Scholl
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.
We tend to think that all people who have a wounded inner child are nice, quiet, and long-suffering. But in fact, the wounded inner child is responsible for much of the violence and cruelty in the world. ~ John Bradshaw
We’re all five-year-olds. We don’t know how to do this thing called life. Are you faking it? ~ Byron Katie
I don’t plan before I color. ~ Wendy MacNaughton.
You’ll never be bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do! ~ Dr. Seuss
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. ~ Mencius.
Inspirational Healing The Inner Child Quotes
I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. ~ James Broughton.
In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow. ~ Papiya Ghosh
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ~ Heraclitus.
The playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. ~ Erik Erikson.
Deep meaning lies often in childish play. ~ Friedrich von Schiller.
See the world through the eyes of your inner child. The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things. ~ Henna Sohail
If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content. ~ Dharma Mittra
I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. James Broughton
The untreated traumas of childhood become the frustrating dramas of adulthood. ~ David Richo
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~ Pablo Picasso.
Life is playfulness…We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us. ~ Flora Colao.
The ever-curious inner child asks the vital questions, like, ‘Why is this important’ and, ‘Will this make me happy? ~ Beau Taplin.
We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. ~ Serina Hartwell.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer. ~ Stephen Hawking.
Inner Child Quotes
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ~ J.P. Morgan
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because the reason can be taken from you. ~ Deepak Chopra.
You may have a more grown up body and more life experience but you are every bit as precious. Love yourself as if you are the most precious thing in the world. Because you are.
After a while, the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. ~ Anne Lamott.
By connecting your inner child to your internal being, you bring out the hero in you that is inside all of us. ~ Kim Ha Campbell.
Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again. ~ Alejandro Cremades
Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties. ~ Terri Guillemets.
You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you. ~ Isadora Duncan
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. ~ Joseph Heller.
When my inner child tries to hold me back, I ignore the uproar and run the other way. ~ Unknown.
Children who try to be good enough to win their parents’ love have no way of knowing that unconditional love cannot be bought with conditional behavior. ~ Lindsay C. Gibson
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. ~ Rachel Carson
We not only need to have a deep respect for children; but also a deep respect for the child in everyone. ~ C. JoyBell C.
A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it. ~ R.C Ferguson.
They are not sorry for harming you. So, don’t feel guilty for cutting them off. ~ John Mark Green
All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age. ~ Aldous Huxley
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~ Sigmund Freud.
Inner Child Healing Quotes
I want a man, but I want a man that also wants to embrace his inner child. ~ Paula Patton.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still. ~ Fred Rogers.
Healing your lost inner child wounding takes time, gentle care, and learning to love and embrace your wounded parts. ~ Robert Jackman.
I love fantasy; I love imagination ~ that’s the inner child in me. ~ Hannah John-Kamen
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I love fantasy; I love imagination ~ that’s the inner child in me. ~ Hannah John-Kamen.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing ~ George Bernard Shaw
Acknowledge your inner child. ~ Karen A. Baquiran.
Give yourself permission to act like a child – to view the world with wonder – to let your mind be free.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination. ~ Sam Levenson
Inner Bonding is a process of connecting our Adult thoughts with our instinctual gut feelings, the feelings of our Inner Child, so that we can live free of conflict within ourselves. ~ Margaret Paul
Awaken your inner child with new imagination and new innocence, discover a new you, a new world. ~ Liz.
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton.
I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies. ~ Robert Englund.
My inner child is not wounded. ~ Shannen Doherty.
You cannot see a tree as it grows. Only with time can you see it’s progress. ~ Nicole Addison
Don’t forget to love her. The little girl you used to be. Perhaps she lies within you. Untucked. Sleeping peacefully. ~ Kiana Llanos
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~ Leo Buscaglia.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
See the world through the eyes of your inner child. ~ Henna Sohail.
So much of the healing of our world begins in healing the inner child who rarely, if ever, got to come out and play. ~ Vince Gowmon.
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.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which means never losing your enthusiasm. ~ Aldous Huxley
You just have to surround yourself with the things that make you grateful to be alive. ~ Juansen Dizon, Warm
It’s very important to realize that the inner child is still there, caught in the past. We have to rescue him. ~ Thich Nhat Nanh
The most sophisticated people I know ~ inside they are all children. ~ Jim Henson.
Honor your inner child by losing yourself in simple pleasures. ~ Kim del Valle Walker.
Make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father’s hand. ~ Israel Zangwill.
All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten. ~ Robert Fulghum.
Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again. ~ Alejandro Cremades.
No. No. I don’t listen to anyone except my … inner child anyway. ~ Amy Winehouse
Some-day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~ C. S. Lewis.
When you abandon your Inner Child, you don’t take action to help yourself. Not taking action is avoiding responsibility. ~ Margaret Paul.
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called All The Things That Could Go Wrong ~ Marianne Williamson.
Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional. ~ Walt Disney.
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. ~ John Bradshaw.
When we honor our inner child’s feelings, we release the emotional hurts that we’re still subconsciously carrying around. ~ Patricia Hope.
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination. ~ Sam Levenson.
When you feel a child inside of you springing to life, that’s how you know you’re where you should be. ~ C. JoyBell C
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. ~ Neil Gaiman.
I hope this great collection of quotes about inner child will heal you and make you happy.
