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Meditators dream of attaining the single-pointed focus that young children experience naturally when they play. Spiritual aspirants long for the rapture that defines moments of pure delight.Victor Shamas
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This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth.Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust. O the joy of beingin life with all these people! I speak of differencesbecause they are there. Like the different organsthat make up our bodies. Earth, itself, is one large body. Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery. When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in itschest. When one orgasms, the Earth craves a cigarette. Look carefully, these animals are beauty spots that make the Earth’s face lovelier and more loveable. These oceans are the Earth’s limpid eyes. These trees, its hair. This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. I will no longer speak of differences, for the similaritiesare larger. Look even closer. There may bedistances between our limbs butthere are no spaces betweenour hearts. We long to be one. We long to be in nature andto run wild with its wildlife. Let us celebrate life and living, for it is sacrilegious to be ungrateful. Let us play and be playful, for it is sacrilegiousto be serious. Let us celebrate imperfectionsand make existenceproud of us, for tomorrow isdeath, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world.Kamand Kojouri
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And no matter what closet we were thrown in, up what river we were sold for an embarrassment, or worse, traded for a bottle of gin--we’d carry on in playful stitches, friends‘til the end…which came sooner than wished.Kristen Henderson
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How I miss wandering around with old souls, Aimlessly moving from one place to another How I miss all our dreams and our goals And how we've lost ourselves to find each other Seems like a playful game of hide-n-seek But that's how we'll forever play this life Loving and living the truth that we seek Until embraced we find our way to strive Gazing into strangers' eyes to find our soul mates, Knowing we're so much closer than we thought. Our heart keeps the light that forever radiates Through all the darkness, 'til love is taught And yet again we look into the skies, We see the stars, the moon, that light Missing our home beyond the nights Living in love until the end of the fight.Unknown
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Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.Michael Bassey Johnson
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When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.Karen Quan
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Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.Jill Badonsky
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If a woman becomes more dominating on her husband, he may not be as playful in bed as he could be otherwise.Girdhar Joshi
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Lollypop...the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks...Muse
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You must learn to enjoy life and have fun doing what you love.Lailah Gifty Akita
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And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?Simona Panova
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Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?Simona Panova
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I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.Kamand Kojouri
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Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.Susan Block
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Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.Bryant McGill
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There are only a few things that are more entertaining than watching a cat trying to run across a freshly waxed wood floor after a ball.David C. Holley
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As if reading her mind, he leaned into her again, pupils dark, irises glowing like a forest caught in the last rays of sun before dusk… “Do you want me to make you come?”“ Is that a trick question?Dianna Hardy
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Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no! ” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley.“Oh honestly, ” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it! ” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.J.k. Rowling
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. such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter! Then scaling him, with chairs for ladders, to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round the neck, pommel his back and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! The shouts of wonder and delight with wich the development of every package was received! The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy! They are indescribable alike. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlor, and by one stair at a time up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.Charles Dickens
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Frowning I playfully blow a fresh handful of bubbles at him as we walks back out, laughing over his shoulder at me.A.J. Young
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It was more overwhelming if I’m honest, one minute I’m just talking to him and the next I’m flat on my back and he’s-”“ He’s?” they both said in unison“ He’s touching places, with his …”Eyeing them both I give them a look as my chest redden further, I really don’t want to have to say specifically.A.J. Young
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Aren't you going a little overboard?" I asked, picturing a day ahead of me trying to find these items in a town I didn't know." Nonsense, darling. What's the point of a party if you don't go overboard." I sat on the sofa watching her, admiring her. Not only was she beautiful, but she had a wonderful way of shaking off life's little problems, like water off a duck's back. Nothing seemed to upset her. .Rhys Bowen
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Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions.Richard Hofstadter
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So, Mr. Mandrake, what is it you plan to do with me this evening?” I asked haughtily. “I presume, ” he said, playing along, “that I will start with feeding you proper and then proceed with more…pestiferous acts.” I smiled through the confusion. I’d have to look up that word later.Brandi Salazar
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Play with your ideals and laugh at the limitations of your mundane life.Miranda J. Barrett