“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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“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer
“In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” – Mary Davis
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ― Melody Beattie
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” ― G.K. Chesterton
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“look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day…it’s as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun…so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower”
― Bodhi Smith
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do. -Helen Keller
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“Because somehow, the sun rises each day. Emerging from the horizon, brighter and more beautiful than the previous day. You’ll rise from the horizon too, learning to trust again. Learning to love again. Learning to heal. You’ll emerge so bright that the haters will be blinded. And darling, you’ll be the sun then, bright and beautiful, but they won’t be your sunflowers.”
― Minahil
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