What a quality of innocence people have when they don’t expect to be harmed.
Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau
Sometimes I'm torn between the beauty and silence 4am holds. The lighting is really gentle, all you can smell is the slight wind gliding across your nose, and all you can hear is birds communicating with one another. Why do we spend most of this time in our beds, out cold? I've never appreciated the world more than I have at this very moment. I feel the small bit of innocence in me I thought I lost. It's still alive, and it's not in your grip. 5am is holding it.
Unknown
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
Alan Cohen
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
As you get older, your expectations or trust of others is not as high as it was when one was young, naive and felt unstoppable. That is one of the things that many of us strive to regain most from life as we age, which is this innocence we once had, but due to the scars one accumulates with age, finding ones way back to this prized destination is almost impossible, because the compass we used then has been shattered by the weight of life’s disappointments.
Avis John
As you get older, your expectations or trust of others is not as high as it was when one was young, naive and felt unstoppable. That is one of the things that many of us strive to regain most from life as we age, which is this innocence we once had, but due to the scars one accumulates with age, finding ones way back to this prized destination is almost impossible, because the compass we used then has been shattered by the weight of life’s disappointments.
Avis John
In the eyes of a child you will see, the world as it should be.
The world always looks better when seen through the eyes of a child.