The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. – Erik H. Erikson

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

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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

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When I grow up I want to be a little boy. – Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974

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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

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Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. – Hattie McDaniel

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To be amused by what you read — that is the great spring of happy quotations. – C.E. Montague (1867–1928), “Quotation”

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. – Thomas A. Edison

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Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him. – Ezra Taft Benson

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