Playing Quotes

A true friend doesn't have guts, they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.

~ Suzy Kassem

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory.

~ Pushpa Rana

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

~ Amit Kalantri

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

~ Amit Kalantri

Meditators dream of attaining the single-pointed focus that young children experience naturally when they play. Spiritual aspirants long for the rapture that defines moments of pure delight.

~ Victor Shamas

Play is a sacred act. When we are playing, the essence of all creation flows freely through us. We are expressing our true nature and connecting with the very core of our existence. Nothing is more spiritual than that.

~ Victor Shamas

When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation.

~ Victor Shamas

Play is my Way. Fun is my destiny. Love and joy are my religion.

~ Victor Shamas

Play it once for old times' sake. Play it twice to not forsake. And play it thrice if you cannot fake. Joyous life is your to take. You always get what you make.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Ego said, 'treat me like a game and I will show you how it's played'; Soul replied, 'ego can never lose; it is always a winner because ego is playing against itself [ego is me; soul is we]'.

~ Sandeep N. Tripathi

In my heaven sweet melodies of the skies ripple pool of the sea playing sweet song to me, sharing tales of the past, blending with mine as mirage, painting new...I breathe in, am in love and alive...

~ Oksana Rus

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

All of life is an amphitheater where we each serve as an appreciative member of the audience until the sublime play ends with our death. The chapters and verses in our life story reflect what we value – how appreciative we are for our time to work, play, laugh, cry, and create.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’t show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

~ Vikrmn

In the soul of a lover, it is always spring where flowers of ecstasy are always blooming. Music of love is always playing.

~ Debasish Mridha

The church and all Christians need to pray, but without playing an active part, it is impossible to impact the country

~ Sunday Adelaja

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

~ Ryan Lilly

Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with friends I've met from America and Europe, I now know this is true. Children everywhere have similar ways of entertaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.

~ William Kamkwamba

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every single day. Do you not understand that children will hinge their entire facet of trust on whether or not their dad plays with them and how involved he is when he plays with them? Do you know the damage you do by not playing with your children every day?

~ Dan Pearce

Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

~ Criss Jami

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

~ Simona Panova

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

~ Roel Van Sleeuwen

When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

~ Amit Ray

Learn well and play well.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

~ William Glasser

The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it! Blames create no change; winners don't apportion blames!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do, the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

~ Jacques Derrida

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

~ Vera Nazarian

Why am I anti-social?? Hey GreenWind can you answer me, little black biatch that I don't go out makes me anti social? How about the people which can't cross the street, everyday talking about football and playing box. You are one of them, so you are without minded guy, you are dumb, stupid and black biatch. Let's see how now you will win??? Why you are so quite??? Oh,oh I know you don't have what to say!

~ Deyth Banger

I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

And so the game went on in this manner, a throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and forth between two plump ogres. The air filled with shrieks and cheers and shouts of laughter as daring players thrilled at the sport. That is, all but the few poor souls knocked flat and captured. No laughter rose from behind bars because those in the birdcage knew what was in store. They would soon be lunch for a couple of hungry ogres. Now you might be thinking—didn’t Gavin call it fun when he was swallowed by a wolf earlier? And didn’t he tell that raven-haired girl it doesn’t hurt to be swallowed whole by a bear? All true, all true. But here’s a secret you might not

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

My mother would say, 'Why are you always playing alone?' And I would say, 'I'm not playin', Ma. I'm fuckin' serious!

~ George Carlin

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

~ Francesca Lia Block