"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Life
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
More From Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
- "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
- "It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
More In Life
- "Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it."― William Christopher Handy
- "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."― Aristotle
- "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."― John F. Kennedy