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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses
and
miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing
world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by
circumstances,
it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is
free play
fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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The real joy of life is in its
play. Play is
anything we
do for the joy
and love
of doing it, apart from
any
profit, compulsion,
or sense
of duty. It is the
real living of
life with the
feeling of freedom and
self-expression. Play is
the
business of childhood,
and its
continuation in
later years is the
prolongation of youth.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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To be playful is not
to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing
of
consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with
each other we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open
to
surprise; everything that happens is of consequence. It is, in
fact,
seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for
seriousness is a dread
of the unpredictable outcome of open
possibility. To be serious is
to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow
for possibility whatever the cost to
oneself.
James Carse
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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we
stop playing!
George Bernard
Shaw
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They are enlightened who join in this play knowing
it as play,
for people suffer only because they take as serious
what the gods made for fun.
Alan Watts
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The
creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl
Jung
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ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.
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Necessity
may be the mother of invention,
but play is certainly the
father.
Roger
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Play is
the only way the highest intelligence
of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton
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The
true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden;
heaven is a playground.
G.
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Does
it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare
characteristic of that rare thing called genius--versatility
and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.
Mary Russell
Mitford
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If
I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else
tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.
Patricia
Nourot
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It
is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate
between a time for learning and a time for play
without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo
Buscaglia |
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| Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.
Frank Caplan |
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To
the art of working well a civilized race would add that art of
playing well.
George
Santayana |
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We
are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves,
or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
Charles
Schaefer |
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The world is your playground. Why aren't you
playing?
Ellie Katz |
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| Play is the
beginning of knowledge.
George Dorsey |
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Play
keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm
for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just
doesn't taste good.
Lucia
Capocchione |
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If
you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun.
When that happens I tell myself just to go out
and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas
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Those
who know how to play can easily leap over the adversities of life.
And one who knows how to sing and laugh never brews mischief.
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Why
is play so elusive for some grown-ups? Because we are so
strongly attracted
and attached to a profoundly goal-oriented, work-ethic-driven
society. Like
other forms of non-work, play connotes wastefulness, a stoppage in
the way of
what needs to get done. Yet often what really needs to get
done has more to do
with our hearts and spirits and less to do with a deadline or
longstanding project.
Play beckons to us, urging us to live in the present moment, a
moment that
becomes more luminous when we disallow interruptions like work and
worry.
Leslie
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Thirty
Reasons to Play!
Jill
Murphy Long
1. Explore!
2. Time just for me.
3. Connect with old friends.
4. Make new friends.
5. Have extra energy.
6. Learn a new skill.
7. Expand my interests.
8. Expand my world.
9. Think more clearly.
10. Have fun.
11. Sleep better.
12. Be in a better mood.
13. Be happy.
14. Be healthier.
15. Be with my dog.
16. Be strong.
17. Increase my strength.
18. Be independent. |
19.
Be confident.
20. Time to problem solve.
21. Reduce stress.
22. Be with God.
23. Be in nature.
24.
Get a suntan.
25. Be me!
26. Sweat out toxins.
27. Eat healthier.
28. Renew my enthusiasm for life.
29. Be powerful.
30. Because I want to!
When
you play, you benefit from the physical movement,
the intellectual stimulation and the creative
expression. You'll feel better about yourself,
and many forms of active play will actually help you
to get in better shape physically. So while
you may think you don't have time to play, this is
the best thing you could possible be doing.
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