Win The Life

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

 

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. - Mencius, Book IV

 

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

 

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. - Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"

 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

 

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

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

 

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. - Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

 

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. - Robert Fulghum

 

When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot. - Ray Kroc

 

Adults are obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss

 

A grownup is a child with layers on. - Woody Harrelson

 

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. - Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862

 

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

 

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. - Sam Levenson

 

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. - Norman Podhoretz

 

O men, grown sick with toil and care,
Leave for awhile the crowded mart;
O women, sinking with despair,
Weary of limb and faint of heart,
Forget your years to-day and come
As children back to childhood's house.
- Phoebe Cary

 

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

 

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. - Barbara Jordan

 

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

 

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

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

 

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. - Rachel Carson

 

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. - Jean de la Bruyere

 

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.• Fred Rogers

 

In this business it's hard to find people who are able to dance with their inner child without the help of stimulants.• Jim Carrey

 

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.- Rachel Carson

 

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.• J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties.• Terri Guillemets

 

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.• Albert Einstein

 

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.• Ron Olson

 

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.• Robert Fulghum

 

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.• Mencius

 

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.• Jean De La Bruyere

 

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

 

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

 

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.• Sam Levenson

 

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 grownup is a child with layers on.• Woody Harrelson

 

Adults are obsolete children.• Dr. Seuss

 

When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot.• Ray Kroc

 

Everybody's 12 years old in an apple orchard.• Rachael Ray

 

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.• Saint-exupéry

 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.• Pablo Picasso

 

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.• Bob Seger

 

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.• Joseph Heller

 

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.• Gaston Bachelard

 

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

 

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.• Friedrich Nietzsche