Joyful Exploration Quotes

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

I'm just a kid having fun.

Life's too much fun to have it go in just one direction.

The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

Childhood lasts all through life.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

Childhood is but change made gay and visible.

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

Poppy's world is a magical place, and it's the most free part of the entire universe.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

I believe in finding somewhere you can express yourself, play without fear, play with everything you have. When you find that place, stay.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.