#Playfulness Quotes

“The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.”

“The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'”

“One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.”

“If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not”

“If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.”

“That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.”

“Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.”

“You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!”

“I don't think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.”

“If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.”

“When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.”

“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”

“It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.”

“Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

“He put his arms around her. “Well, in my defense, then, whatever I did seemed to work, didn't it?” She sighed. “I suppose.” “You suppose?” “What do you want? A medal?” “For starters. A trophy would be nice, too.” She smiled. “What do you think you're holding right now?”

“Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.”

“I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.”

“This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.”

“We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.”

“Painting is a jeu d'esprit.”

“Don't waste your youth growing up.”

“If you're a bird... I'm a bird.”

“Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.”

“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.”

“I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.”

“With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.”

“I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.”

“We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.”

“You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you.”

“Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.”

“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.”

“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”

“Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.”

“Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.”