It is a happy talent to know how to play.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.
— Spanish proverb
All grown-ups were once children. (But few of them remember it.)
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
-Stacia Tauscher
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
— Anne Frank
To undertake is to achieve.
— Emily Dickinson
There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
— French proverb
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
-Plato
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Mohandas Gandhi
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
— Sir William Van Horne
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
- Tennessee Williams
“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
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
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
- Heraclitus, Greek philosopher
“Another word for creativity is courage.”
~ George Prince
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
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
Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Vandyke
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
— Corita Kent
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~ Joseph Campbell
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but not as interesting as looking"
~ Goethe
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
~ Ruth Ann Schabacker
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius
It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
~ Anaïs Nin
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