Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

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.

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

To a young heart everything is fun.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

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

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

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.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

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

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

You must not ever stop being whimsical.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

We all know how to be a child.

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.