“ To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. ”
- Brendan Gill- Copy
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“ As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful,... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength lies. ”
- Benjamin Bratt- Copy
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“ Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ I know for sure that at the end, the playful stranger who appears is not death but love. ”
- Kathleen Norris- Copy
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“ Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. ”
- Michael Jackson- Copy
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“ It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. ”
- Saint Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ”
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca- Copy
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“ There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice… ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is working, she comes, and she runs and hugs everybody in the morning, and her beautiful smile just sort of forces everybody, pushes them, to open up to the day. ”
- Elisabeth Shue- Copy
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“ Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us, even in the leafless winter,... I am thinking now of grief and getting past it. I feel my boots trying to leave the ground, I feel my heart pumping hard. I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome… ”
- Mary Oliver- Copy
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“ When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. ”
- Thomas Arnold- Copy
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