Daily Inspiration
Playfulness
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
Child
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Depression
The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.
—Brian Sutton-Smith
Play
It is better to play than do nothing.
—Confucius
Breathing
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
—Walter Kirn
Mind
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
—Seneca the Younger
Virtue
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
—Alan Cohen
Music
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
—Thomas Jefferson
Rest
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
—John Lubbock
Self-Commendation
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
—Fulton J. Sheen