#innocence

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#family #innocence #family

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II. Men who were both dangerous and promising precisely because of their fundamental innocence; men prone, in the end, to disappointment. ↗

— Barack Obama

#americans #innocence #freedom

When you were born, the sight of your face and the noise of your voice brought people joy, you are a carrier of peace and love; return to your natural state of innocence, be free today ↗

— Martin Suarez

#birth #face #freedom #innocence #joy

Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#choose #freedom #grace #innocence #justice

One day you’re innocent, then circumstances find you in an unlikely situation and you wonder how you could have been so stupid. I suppose I should be thankful. Being framed for a crime is all a part of growing up. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #innocence #maturity #funny

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#justice #mercy #wickedness #love

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#innocence #love

O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love #madness #love

Sometimes I ask God what I did to deserve her love. I maintain my innocence, and of all the forms of God’s wrath from plagues, pestilence, and famine, her love is by far the cruelest.
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— Jarod Kintz

#famine #god #innocence #love #pestilence

Don't care what people say Just follow your own way Don't give up and use the chance To return to innocence. That's not the beginning of the end That's the return to yourself The return to innocence. ↗

— Enigma

#innocence #lyrics #music #return-to-innocence #music