#childlike

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

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You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?" ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#childish #childlike #have fun #having fun #without

Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#romanticism #life

But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt realism and objectivity of innocence. Or if we cannot do that, we must try at least to shake off the cloud of mere custom and see the thing as new, if only by seeing it as unnatural. Things that may well be familiar so long as familiarity breeds affection had much better become unfamiliar when familiarity breeds contempt. For in connection with things so great as are here considered, whatever our view of them, contempt must be a mistake. Indeed contempt must be an illusion. We must invoke the most wild and soaring sort of imagination; the imagination that can see what is there. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#novelty #imagination

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play. ↗

— John Cleese

#creative #creative people #facility #most #people