Play Life Quotes

• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 17, 2017

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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Day

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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  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, realize it is play.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Monday

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.

  Sai Baba

  Life, Dream, Song

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Children, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game.

  Huey Newton

  Men, Games, Play

  "Huey: Spirit of the Panther". Book by David Hilliard, p. 46, 2006.

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• What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

  Fred Ebb

  Play, Sitting, Rooms

  "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

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• Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Life, Spiritual, Yoga

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• A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Music, Play, Way

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• I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Exercise, Games

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.180, Penguin

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• The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

  Jakob Bohme

  Play, Perfect, Serious Business

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