“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Quotes, excerpts, images on the essentialness and benefits of play. Title quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
“Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. ”
Lionel Tiger
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ”
Maya Angelou
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”
Carl Jung
“Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play. ”
Plato
The true object of all human life is play. ”
G. K. Chesterton
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play. ”
Johan Huizinga
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realise it is play.”
— Alan Watts, Author