Paulo Coelho Quotes

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

I never want to grow up.

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Do you hear the children singing?

It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

I think we all miss our childhood.

I'm such a kid at heart.