1. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran
2. 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, author
3. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
4. Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas. Young children may not be able to verbalize new ideas forming in their heads, but they may still apply similar processes to scientists. During this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations. ~Judith Roden
5. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. ~Tom Robbins, author
6. I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escaped and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox. ~Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist
7. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~Leo F. Buscaglia
8. 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
9. If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ~John Cleese
10. In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
11. It is a happy talent to know how to play. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. ~D.W. Winnicott
13. 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, author, educator
14. It’s not so much what children learn through play, but what they won’t learn if we don’t give them the chance to play. ~Susan J. Oliver
15. Life must be lived as play. ~Plato
16. Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. ~Eileen Caddy
17. Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
18. Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ~Heraclitus, Greek philosopher
19. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ~Roger von Oech
20. Play for young children is not recreation activity,... It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity.... Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problemsolving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-ofideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met. ~James L. Hymes, Jr.,
21. Play is essential to the life of the universe. ~Robert Jackson
22. Play is like a reservoir full of water. The deeper the reservoir, the more water can be stored in it, and used during times of drought. ~Tina Bruce
23. Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. ~Friedrich Froebel
24. Play is the purist, the most spiritual, product of man at this stage, and it is at once the prefiguration and imitation of the total human life,--of the inner, secret, natural life in man and in all things. It produces, therefore, joy, freedom, satisfaction, repose within and without, peace with the world. The springs of all good rest within it and go out from it. --Freidrich Froebel (Father of modern kindergarten)
25. Play is work that you enjoy doing for nothing. ~Evan Esar, humorist
26. 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 Capocchione8
27. Play, Learn, and Pass it on. ~Dusty Skye
28. Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative. ~unknown
29. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ~Carl Jung
30. The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives. ~Leo Buscaglia
31. The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play.... He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leavaing others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. ~James Michener
32. The true object of all human life is play. ~G. K. Chesterton
33. The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. ~Natty Nats
34. There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile. ~Edward Hoagland
35. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ~George Bernard Shaw
36. What we play is life. ~Louis Armstrong
37. Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. ~Mark Twain
38. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ~Mark Twain
39. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~Plato