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Quotes About Playfulness

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.
~ Tove Jansson
I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
~ Tracey Ullman
She reached up to push back his thick brown hair and smiled. "I've wanted to do that for a very long time." "I won't tell you what I've wanted to do," he said with a grin. Her eyes widened. "Why, Mr. Barnett, I thought you to be a gentleman." His expression turned mischievous. "I am—that's why I'm not telling you.
~ Tracie Peterson
Bumblebee when I named her! I'd like to see you come up with a better name at that age!" "Wordibird," Bumblebee said sleepily from her sling, and Cricket laughed again.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
With punching and biting?" Swordtail suggested hopefully. "And maybe some venomous caterpillars?" "I like the way you think," Sundew said. "But they're centipedes, dingbat.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Bring me back a banaaaaaaana!" Mindreader called after him as Mightyclaws darted away.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
you a pie!" Peacemaker chirped, smashing a pile of mud over Hope's talons. "Yum yum yum yum,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I like your weird little laugh wrinkles." "I like your weird little way you mispronounce words." "I BEG your pardon. YOU'RE the one who says things all squonkily.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Turtle and Kinkajou, flying in the sky, Getting all K-I-S-S-Y —
~ Tui T. Sutherland
you're a handsome idiot," she said affectionately. "And I'll tell you later.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Would you like me to spell out 'DRAGONETS WUZ HERE' in giant rocks?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Don't be afraid of silly ideas.
~ Paul Arden
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
~ Paulo Coelho
Like the children we will never ever cease to be.
~ Paulo Coelho
Toda la vida te voy a agradecer esa pregunta. Es como si me estuvieras pidiendo la mano. Ella rió al decir esto, y enseguida agregó con demacrada seriedad: No juegues conmigo niño, mira que me lo puedo tomar en serio.
~ Unknown
The whole journey of renunciation, or starting to say yes to life, is first of all realizing that you've come up against your edge, that everything in you is saying no, and then at that point, softening. This is yet another opportunity to develop loving-kindness of yourself, which results in playfulness--learning to play like a raven in the wind.
~ Pema Chodron
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
~ Pema Chodron
It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are—or who anyone else is either.
~ Pema Chodron
egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are, or who anyone else is, either. Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh. For a warrior-in-training, egolessness is a cause of joy rather than a cause of fear.
~ Pema Chodron
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are, or who anyone else is, either. Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
~ Pema Chodron
egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness
~ Pema Chodron
All my works are games, serious game.
~ M. C. Escher
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
~ E. B. White
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
~ Geri Halliwell