Work, Heaven, Learning

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under
differing conditions.
~ Mark Twain, novelist, journalist, river pilot

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
~ Karen Sunde

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You
just need people with the desire to better themselves.
~ Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

Grow Old, Letters, Doing

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
~ George Bernard Shaw, playright

All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing.
Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Play, Games, Reality

Play is the child's main business in life; through play he learns the
skills to survive and finds some pattern in the confusing world into
which he was born.
~ Lee (1977)

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If
you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
~ Albert Einstein

Letters, Couples, Murder

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity,
letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back
to my own with greater contentment.
~ Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you."
~ Klare Provine

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~ Voltaire

Esteem, Adventurer, Seriously

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
~ Margaret Cho

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
~ Vincent van Gogh

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
~ Brendan Gill