L. Frank Baum Quotes

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

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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.

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