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1. “When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.”

Mitch Hedberg

Childhood, Bed, Sibling, Wonder, Innocence

2. “A flow’ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Innocence, Grief, Mortality, Childhood

3. “While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”

Charles Lamb

Childhood, Dreams, Imagination, Innocence, Creativity

4. “I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.”

Charles Lamb

Children, Innocence, Beauty, Love, Nature

5. “Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.”

Charles Lamb

Belief, Innocence, Trust, Experience, Wisdom

6. “Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child’s heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?”

Charles Lamb

Childhood, Innocence, Wisdom, Growth, Nostalgia

7. “As kids we didn't know many fears, we smiled at strangers, we played with anyone new, we smiled more often, we didn't worry about the future, didn't remember much about the past, we hugged, kissed, cuddled, didn't fear judgement. And then we became "adults"! What a decline!”

Ankur Warikoo

Childhood, Fear, Innocence, Adulthood, Joy

8. “As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.”

V.S. Naipaul

Childhood, Learning, Innocence, Growth, Identity

9. “Great men have the nature of a child.”

Ramakrishna

Simplicity, Greatness, Childlike, Innocence, Wisdom

10. “Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”

Leonard Cohen

Prayer, Translation, Faith, Innocence, Language

11. “When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.”

Thomas Merton

Solitude, Nature, Peace, Innocence, Reflection

12. “There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”

Anton Chekhov

Corruption, Innocence, Interpretation, Morality, Irony

13. “Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.”

Anton Chekhov

Childhood, Memory, Nostalgia, Innocence, Past

14. “The forest fire burns even trees like sandalwood.”

Chanakya

Destruction, Innocence, Suffering, Nature, Consequences

15. “Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of God.”

Herbert Hoover

Children, Innocence, Society, Faith, Humanity

16. “Children add to the wonder of being alive.”

Herbert Hoover

Children, Wonder, Life, Joy, Innocence

17. “The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.”

Herbert Hoover

Children, Joy, Innocence, Visits, Simplicity

18. “Smiling face of every little girl is the signature of God’s presence.”

Amit Ray

Smile, Girl, God, Presence, Innocence

19. “Killing innocent people in the name of God is the highest insult to God.”

Amit Ray

God, Innocence, Peace, Humanity, Compassion

20. “Look well that you unto no vice assent, lest you be damned for your evil intent. For she who does so is a traitor, certainly. And take heed of what I shall say: of all the treasons, the greatest wickedness is the betrayal of innocence.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Vice, Betrayal, Morality, Innocence, Consequence

21. “The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Dogs, Children, Joy, Companionship, Innocence

22. “Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty, Nature, Grace, Elegance, Innocence

23. “Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Innocence, Joy, Trust, Humanity, Kindness

24. “There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Youth, Purity, Innocence, Character, Morality

25. “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Children, Love, Heaven, Innocence, Connection

26. “Children never seek happiness: they are happy.”

Sadhguru

Happiness, Innocence, Joy, Mindset, Present Moment

27. “Innocence is not accustomed to blush.”

Moliere

Innocence, Purity, Experience, Morality, Naivety

28. “Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.”

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness, Innocence, Peace, Truth, Perspective

29. “Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man’s hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!”

Thomas Carlyle

Childhood, Nature, Innocence, Hope, Dreams

30. “The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Innocence, Defiance, Joy, Contrast, Perspective

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