Playfulness Quotes

• The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

  John Cleese

  Essence, Play, Feelings

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• The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Fear, Heart

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• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

  Charles E. Schaefer

  Fun, Play, Alive

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• Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

  Tony Robbins

  Expectations, Priorities, Feel Good

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Soul, Disease

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  People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

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• There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

  Edward Hoagland

  Wise, Wisdom, Fun

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• To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Laughter, Sacred

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• Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

  Karen Russell

  Writing, Self, Perfection

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• See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

  Cyndi Lee

  Practice, Healthy, Curiosity

  Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.24, Penguin

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• Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Joy, World

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• When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Culture, Serious, Capacity

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• Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Children, Philosophy

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• Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

  Rajneesh

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

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• Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your
  reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams;
  according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can
  help those who organize their reality according to their fears.

  Seth

  Dream, Reality, Joy

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• There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

  Cornel West

  Ideas, People, Mind

  Source: genius.com

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• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

  Keith Johnstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.78, Routledge

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• The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Style, Letters

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.134

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• Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

  Timothy Egan

  Art, Jobs, Moving

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• Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Laughter, Expression, Play

  Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”

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• We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fun, Philosophical, Serious

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• Trust allows you to give, Giving is abundant.
  Trust allows the experience of bliss. Bliss is awakefulness.
  Trust allows you to laugh. Laugh at the richness, the beauty and
  the playfulness of the universe.
  Apply consciousness to this process and all roads will lead to home.

  Gary Zukav

  Beauty, Laughter, Home

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• I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Sadness, Joy

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• I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

  Jim Shepard

  Distance, Thinking, Clay

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Smart, Responsibility, Creativity

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