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Quotes About Play

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
~ Calvin Seerveld
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
~ Lord Byron
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
~ Tennessee Williams
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
~ Robert Fulghum
The goal of all life is to have a ball.
~ Albert Ellis
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
~ Alec Guinness
We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.
~ Tom Krause
Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.
~ Danielle LaPorte
What is life but playing with time?
~ Keith Richards
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
~ Helen Hayes
Life is a child moving counters in a game.
~ Heraclitus
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
~ J. D. Salinger
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
~ Jay Griffiths
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
~ Eugene Fitch Ware
It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.
~ Donovan McNabb
Life is too short and hell is too hot to just play church.
~ Larry Osborne
Tomorrow we settle this like children.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't want to hurt his feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.
~ Jill Conner Browne
he was a member of the movement—the Free Cuba movement." "Fair Play for Cuba," said Ruby. He had heard it on the radio. "What's the make of the rifle, sir?" "It's a Mauser, I believe." "Does he have a lawyer?
~ Jim Bishop
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.
~ Jim Carroll
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
~ Jim Henson
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
~ Jim Trelease
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
~ Jimmy Chamberlin
Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.
~ Joan Bauer