You will find more happiness growing down than up. – Author Unknown
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. – G.K. Chesterton
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. – Gaston Bachelard
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. – Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso, quoted in Time, October 1976
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943
Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday and you are turning six again. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Adults are obsolete children. – Dr. Seuss
A grownup is a child with layers on. – Woody Harrelson
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. – Eugene Ionesco
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him. – Pablo Neruda
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. – Heraclitus
In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow. – Papiha Ghosh
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. – Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862
It is a happy talent to know how to play. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. – Brian Aldiss
A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it. – R.C. Ferguson
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. – Jean Piaget
Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized. – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, as quoted by Hesketh Pearson (“Sir Herbert Tree,” Modern
