From his book Homo Ludens
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
Alain de Botton
“Adults who have embraced playfulness, who can embrace adversity in relationships with humor and flexibility have a repertoire of responses to the world.” – Amy Lux
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“If play is how children learn to create their own activities, solve their own problems, take control of their own lives, get along with peers, overcome narcissism, and learn to deal with fear, then the lack of play would be expected to have serious consequences.” – Peter Gray
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
Mary Oliver