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Quotes About Playfulness

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
~ Robert Breault
Stay a child while you can be a child.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
~ Claes Oldenburg
This is getting funner.
~ Esther Hicks
If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!
~ Jeannine M. Luby
You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
~ Aaron Allston, Solo Command
Kids are real artists. They'd rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.
~ Shawn Lukas
May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.
~ C.J. Heck
We are not always funny, but like a life with Fun
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
~ Jane Goodall
Three mongooses, playing chase, burst out of the undergrowth and came galumphing across the track. The leader stopped and the other two bounced on him. There was a crazy bundle of squealing fur, ears, noses and tails. The mongooses broke apart. All three stood up on hind legs to look at us.
~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
sometimes you have to be the grown-up of your life and tell your inner child, who is kicking and screaming, "Get your shoes on. This is not optional. We have a play date.
~ Janice Macleod
Dance comes naturally to us when we're little but fades when we get older. Too many people let the stresses of life get them wound up. I think there's something to be said for cutting loose and having a good time. And hey, people even danced in Bible days.
~ Janice Thompson
My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don't get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk.
~ Jarod Kintz
the way to subvert the dominant paradigm is to have more fun than they do and make sure they know it.
~ Jason F. McLennan
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
~ Dr. Seuss
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
~ Dr. Seuss
it's spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee
~ E.E. Cummings
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~ Albert Jay Nock
Again and again he used to do this. Lad seemed to enjoy it, for he would stand at grave attention, as though listening to something the coon was confiding to him. "I'm sure he's telling Laddie a secret when he does that," said the Mistress. "Nonsense!" scoffed the Master. "We're not living in fable-land. More likely the pesky coon is hunting Lad's ear for fleas. Likelier still, it's just a senseless game they've invented.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun and the water, I had the universal religion only people don't have. I was happy because I didn't ask for anything at all, Or tried to find anything, And I didn't find any more explanation Than the word explanation having no meaning at all.
~ Alberto Caeiro
It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
~ Albom, Mitch