Carolyn Haywood Quotes

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

Children are my favorite people, because they inspire me with their optimism and spirit.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

There is a child in all of us.

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that's so joyful about being around little one's is that they haven't absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

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

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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