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The
word "recreation" is really a very beautiful
word. It is defined in the dictionary as "the
process of giving new life to something, of
refreshing something, of restoring something."
This something, of course, is the whole person.
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We must be wise taskmasters and not require of
ourselves what we cannot possibly perform.
Recreation we must have.
Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an
unnatural tension, will break.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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Our age has become so mechanical that this
has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used
to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a
television set. It may be good once in a while, but it
certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our
imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our
mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we
become too passive, we get dissatisfied.
Maria von Trapp
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Recreation's purpose is not to kill time, but
to make life, not to keep a person occupied, but to keep them
refreshed; not to offer an escape from life, but to provide a
discovery of life.
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Recreation is not a
secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary
concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for
themselves determines the kind of people they become and
the kind of society they build.
Harry Allen
Overstreet
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Being able to provide for the family is
important, but living
without recreation is like a car without
gas. It’s stopped and
parked waiting to be taking away. So why not
give it
some gas and take it to a wonderful place.
Lian Chin
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What we do during do during our working hours
determines what we have; what we do in our
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George Eastman
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The masters in the art of
living make little distinction between
their work and their play,
their labor and their leisure, their
mind and their body, their
information and their recreation,
their love and their religion.
They hardly know which is which.
They simply pursue their vision
of excellence at whatever they
do, leaving others to decide
whether they are working
or playing. To them, they're always doing
both.
James A. Michener
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Leave
all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are
as
necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary
because
health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
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A war fitness
conference some time ago declared that the
highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word
recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can
be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under
these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.
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People
who cannot find time for recreation are obliged
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John Wanamaker
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Walking
is the natural recreation for a person who
desires not absolutely to suppress his or her intellect
but to turn it out to play for a season. All great
people of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
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Life is best
enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between
labor, sleep, and recreation. . . all people should spend one-third
of their time in recreation which is rebuilding,
voluntary activity, never idleness.
Brigham Young
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I still need more healthy
rest in order to work at my best. My health
is the main capital I have and I want to administer it
intelligently.
Ernest Hemingway
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Practice,
which some regard as a chore, should
be approached
as just about the most
pleasant recreation ever devised.
Babe Didrikson |
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The
bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human
frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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Have
you known how to take rest? You have done
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing
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I have nothing
to say against recreation in its proper place. Certain forms
of recreation are needful and useful; but it is a wretched thing
when
amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us
good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the
person.
From early morning till late at night some spend their time in a
round of
frivolities, or else their very work is simply carried on to furnish
them
funds for their pleasures. This is vicious. Many have had all holy
thoughts
and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure
so
called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive
amusement:
everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
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