“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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“Play is the beginning of knowledge.” -George Dorsey
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.” -Brian Sutton-Smith
“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
― Alan Watts
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran
“It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…” ― James A. Murphy
“The true object of all human life is play.” -G. K. Chesterton
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” -Charles Schaefer
“Play is the exultation of the possible.” -Martin Buber
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw
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Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. -Stevie Wonder
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. -Don Miguel Ruiz
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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. -Hans Christian Andersen
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“Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“You can be a flower in somebody’s garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else’s garden.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
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