79 Quotes About Inner-child

The art of becoming an adult is creating a place for child, for the former without the latter leaves us being less than half of what we could be and none of what we were supposed to be.

I’m not so sure that the adult within me teaches the child within me. Rather, I think that the child does most of the educating.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

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.

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.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

I might ask if I am a good Dad to the child within me, for all effective parenting begins there.

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.

If you want to blame your parents for your own adult problems, you are entitled to blame the genes they gave you, but you are not entitled—by any facts I know—to blame the way they treated you.