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Quotes About Playfulness

Kids lead a very private life.
~ Maurice Sendak
Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.
~ Criss Jami
Angels have a sense of humor...The angels wants us to enjoy life. Have a good laugh at yourself every now and again for taking life seriously. Then take time to laugh with the angels!
~ Margaret Neylon
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
~ Carter Burwell
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
~ Edward Gorey
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
~ Edward Hoagland
Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no Birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still!
~ Edward Lear
A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
~ Edwin H. Friedman
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
~ Eileen Caddy
Who doesn't envy a child's endless sense of things. Not that they have it but it's what they feel. It's what we're born to know. A sensation of being unhampered by anything except adults.
~ Eileen Myles
Sim, eu dizia, vamos fazer, vamos imaginar, até na vida adulta, um monte de coisas insensatas, por alegria ou por exaustão.
~ Elena Ferrante
She talked to the child and her doll in the pleasing cadence of the Neapolitan dialect that I love, the tender language of playfulness and sweet nothings. I was enchanted. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother's lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can't take you anymore, I can't take any more.
~ Elena Ferrante
She had taught herself how to knit, and for the mare's scarf - it was green - she had given herself the best grade possible. And ...' 'That's silly!' Micha giggled. 'Well, who is the cliff queen, you or me?' Abel asked. 'It isn't my fault if you're giving yourself grades!
~ Antonia Michaelis
Shenanigans even starts with the word 'She'.
~ Anuj Somany
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly
~ Arianna Huffington
Everything has style, everything`s a little bit larger than life and done with mischief
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
~ Adam Rapp
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
~ Carl Van Vechten
People love gentle larceny.
~ Dan Aykroyd
I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
~ Paul McCartney
I love to dress up. You have to have a sense of fun in life, too. We can all be serious and work and do our bit, but every now and again you have to have a good giggle.
~ Marie-Chantal Claire
It's just fun just being a girl.
~ Stacy Keibler
I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.
~ Katy Perry