Quotes about Play

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be started this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.