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Letter "P" » playing
«We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.»
«The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.»
Author: James A. Michener
| Keywords:
Art of Living, body of work, distinction, excellence, hardly, information, labor, leaving, leavings, leisure, playing, pursues, re-creation, recreation, recreations, the Master, working
«When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?»
«We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Age
| Keywords:
grow, old, playing, stop
«Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
enlightened, insecure, meant, playing, shine, shrinking, shrinks, Small World
«We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
playing
«Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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amuse, amuses, ball, billiard, billiards, frivolous, hitting, hit man, playing, reasons, such as, sufficient, thus, weariness, weary, wretched
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