Peggy Rathmann 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.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

When you're little, first of all, everybody smiles at you because you're cute, so you think the world is great. And everything is so vivid. You know, you're not clouded out by anxiety, and you don't miss things.

All happiness is a form of innocence.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

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

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

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.