Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The true object of human life is play.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

When you are playing, you are always happy.

I just want to go out there and play.

I like to enjoy the game and to have fun and express myself as much as I can.

People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

I just play because I enjoy the sport.

Playing is the biggest thing there is.

I mean, our job is - we're baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we're just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.

The slide is tennis.

I love to play, and I love what it brings to me. It's such a healthy life, and to me, it means everything.

I like to play, it doesn't matter where.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

We live in a world of creative beauty - the grand architect of the universe. God has planted something for us - a playground to play in if we choose to look at it that way and understand it. So, this time for me, is really a time to create.