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Quotes about Playfulness

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
— Heinrich Heine
Songs of Innocence
— Thomas Merton
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.
— John Eldredge
There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
— Psalm 104:26
The wife smiled and added, "Never forget that your twenty- or thirty- or even forty-something husband is still a little boy inside who used to say to his mom, 'Watch me! Watch me!' They never completely get over that.
— Gary Thomas
I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Mommies are just big little girls.
— Anonymous
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".
— Peter Kreeft
Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.
— AA Milne