Max Lucado Quotes

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

We all know how to be a child.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

I can run free here. I can go back to being a kid.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold their hand. If they then try to kiss you and you don't like it, you can push them over. If your aunty gives you a Christmas present that you're not too keen on, you can throw it back in her face and burst into tears. You can gallop freely. You can skip. Children have got it right. The tragedy is, none of this is permissible as an adult. Although one thing surely is – and I'll bet you know what I'm going to say – that's right, the galloping. Such fun!

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

The soul is healed by being with children.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.