Play Life Quotes:

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Sound, Idiot, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Shadow, Candle, Walking, Brief Life, Darkness In Macbeth

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Games, Life Is A Game, Life Is A Dream

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

- Josh Billings

source: 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”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Bad Day, Just Live Your Life, Living Life Well

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

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

topic: Life, Inspiring, Monday, Secret Life, Work And Play

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Meaningless Life, Most Memorable

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

- T. S. Eliot

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Birthday, Time, Player, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life

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

topic: Life, Dream, Song, Life Is A Game, Play Life

All is well that ends well

- Emily Rodda

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

topic: Ends, Wells, Spanish Proverb, Meaning Well, Merchant Of Venice

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Food, Unrequited Love, Romantic Love, Jazz And Life, Music Life

All's well that ends well.

- John Heywood

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

topic: Wisdom, Finishing, Ends, Life Wisdom, Spanish Proverb

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

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

topic: Life, Children, Failure, Play Life

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

topic: Men, Games, Play, Play Life, Valuable Possessions

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

source: "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

topic: Play, Sitting, Rooms, Cabaret, Chum

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

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Life, Spiritual, Yoga, Mind Body Spirit, Play Life

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

- Jaco Pastorius

topic: Music, Play, Way, Play Life

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

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

topic: Mean, Exercise, Games, Play Life, Community Support

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

topic: Play, Perfect, Serious Business, Play Life