Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

When you look at children, they're so beautiful, and they seem so peaceful because their faces aren't all wrinkly and worried. They're like beautiful little pieces of pottery or something. You want to think they have this peace because they have no big responsibilities, but it's just not true.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

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

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'

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

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

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

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.