Nathan Phillips Quotes

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

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.

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

Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

Life must be lived as play.

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

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

When you are playing, you are always happy.

My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.

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

I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

I want to chase the butterflies.

'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

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

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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

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

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.

I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.

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

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.