Quotes About Playfulness

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

He loves to sit and hear me sing,Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty.

Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many great artists have said that they constantly try to recapture it.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around–and why his parents will always wave back.

Those hundreds of feet were light. In washing them off, I pretended the hose was a pump. What have I missed? Childhood is a lie of poetry.

It made me think that no matter how big we grew or how old, there was always a child in us somewhere.

We are projects of self-creation. What f we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling. story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?

We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. "Baa," it flirted. "Boo," said Jared. "Oh my God, Jared. Don't tough-talk the lambs." "It was giving me a funny look.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Good friends will share the umbrella. Best friends Will steal it and yell: RUN LOSER RUN!

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

Great design is serious, not solemn

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.