Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.
To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
You can be childlike without being childish.
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.
most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.
Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.
