Play

The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy. –Patch Adams

Everyone’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers. –Hans Christian Andersen

Is that what they call a vocation: what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body? –Josephine Baker

Play is the exultation of the possible. –Martin Buber

All of this spectacle, including me, is the play of DNA. –Deepak Chopra

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. –John Cleese

There is a language of the world that everyone understands. It is the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. –Paulo Coelho

My sense of God is not a deity, but the perpetual sense of wonder. –Albert Einstein

Hitch your wagon to a star. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see a child play and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play. –Eric Erickson

Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything. –Herbert Gardner

They say that God is happiest when his children are playing.

We don't quit playing because we grow old. We grow old because we quit playing. –Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are 3 things which are real: God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third. –John F. Kennedy

It takes a long time to become young. –Picasso

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasting time. –Bertrand Russell

Play is even more demanding than real life. It asks unremittingly for our very best. –George Sheehan

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars. –Henry van Dyke

God made man because he loves stories. –Elie Wiesel

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

Courage and Spirituality

Everyone dies. Not everyone lives. –Braveheart

Churches are best for prayer that have least light. –John Donne

There are only hurts and guesses, hurts followed by guesses; and the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. –T. S. Eliot

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality, and then there are those who turn one into the other. –Douglas Everett

I believe imagination is stronger that knowledge, myth is more potent than history, dreams are more powerful than facts, hope always triumphs over experience, laughter is the cure for grief, love is stronger than death. –Robert Fulgrum

Believe in yourself, because it takes an enormous amount of belief every single day of our lives. –Jim Henson

Much of the spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. –Jack Kornfield

Play is one of the highest spiritual forms of being. When we’re in that state, we get lost in ourselves, which allows the mind to receive messages of the spirit. –Dr. Ellie Katz

All religious experience at its roots is an experience of an unconditional and unrestricted being in love. –Bernard Lonergan

I, God, am your playmate! I will lead the child in you in wonderful ways, for I have chosen you. –Mechtild of Magdeburg

The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment. –Thomas Moore

It always seems to me that so few people live – they just seem to exist, and I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t LIVE always, till we die physically. Why do we do it all in our teens and twenties? –Georgia O’Keefe

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. –Theodore Roethke

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith. –Albert Schweitzer

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. –David Searls

At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way. –Leland Thomas

If a big dog runs at you, whistle for it. –Henry David Thoreau

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. –Howard Thurman

I must grasp life at its depth. –Van Gogh

As children, we are a series of question marks. As adults, we grow up and our language is filled with periods.

Creativity

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. –Scott Adams

We both believe and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. –Emily Dickinson

If a child grew up into adulthood according to early indication, we should have nothing but geniuses. –Goethe

Courage is grace under pressure. –Hemmingway

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. –Carl Jung

Play is one of the highest spiritual forms of being. When we’re in that state, we get lost in ourselves, which allows the mind to receive messages of the spirit. –Dr. Ellie Katz

I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination. –John Keats

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. What wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility. –Soren Kierkegard

One drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too poor, too feeble to be of service. Think of this and act. –Hannah More

One must have chaos within to give birth to a dancing star. –Nietzsche

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things. –Mary Oliver

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play that in a year of conversation. –Plato

You, you have not grown old; and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its secrets. –Rainer Maria Rilke

To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic. –Hugh Rahner

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. –Henry David Thoreau

Most of us have forgotten how to play, forgotten the joy of creativity. –Marion Woodman