Sunday Serenity #291

Play--It's not just a child's prerogative 
The first several of the quotes on play below are from the guy in the video above

Play fosters belonging and encourages cooperation.Stuart Brown, MD - Psychologist
Play energizes us and enlivens us. It eases our burdens. It renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.Stuart Brown, MD - Psychologist
Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.Stuart Brown, MD - Psychologist
Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair; it helps us learn perseverance and gain optimism.Stuart Brown MD - Psychologist
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.Abraham Maslow
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.Carl Jung - Psychologist
Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.Henri Matisse - Artist
The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.Brian Sutton-Smith - Folkorist
Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play.... We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.Johan Huizing - Historian
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard Shaw - Playwrite
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.Pablo Neruda - Poet