***** QUOTES ABOUT HAVING FUN *****


~ Time's fun when you're having flies! - Kermit the Frog


~ Bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.' If I died and found myself in Hell, I could endure the place if I had bunny slippers. - Dean Koontz



~ For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings. - MC Richards



~ Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. - Mary Satton



~ He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day needs to reorganize his life. - George Matthew Adams



~ The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden, heaven is a playground. - GK Chesterton



~ You hear that boy laughing? you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes



~ When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation. - O. Carl Simonton


~ Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free. - Ted Loder



~ There is little success where there is little laughter. - Andrew Carnegie



~ Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be alright. - Maya Angelou



~ There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do
and not doing it. - Mary Wilson Little



~ When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie. Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain. - Dean Koontz




***** LEISURE QUOTES *****



~ When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other. - Chinese Proverb



~ One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie



~ For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill



~ There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Gandhi



~ He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. - Henry David Thoreau



~ If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson





***** QUOTES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF REST *****



~ Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. - Chinese Proverb



~ No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive. - Dr. Joyce Brothers


~ Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! - Barbara Hoffman



~ Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William Burroughs



~ Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant. - Dave Barry



~ The time to relax most is when you don't have time for it. - Sydney J. Harris


~ Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard


~ To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.
- Rachel Naomi Remen


~ We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. - Henry Ward Beecher


~ Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir