Playfulness & Lightheartedness Quotes

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Fun is good.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Neither my fiance nor I take ourselves too seriously, and we want our wedding to reflect our lightheartedness.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Laughter is beyond truth - the ultimate happiness.

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Funny is an attitude.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.