Byron Katie Quotes

Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

Living in a zoo means it wasn't always sparkly dresses, but I would still dress up. I had this pink sparkly dress and fairy wings, and I'd put those on and then go and dance in the zoo.

When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.

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

Fun is only possible if you have a mindset that allows it.

Be creative, have a good time, and be yourself.

I feel like the luckiest person alive. I spend my life doing the stuff I love. I'm surrounded by inventive people who are full of energy and life.

Being spontaneous is a blessing.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.