„What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!“

„When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.“

—  Martin Amis, buch House of Meetings

Quelle: House of Meetings

„Love can play destructive games; one day overwhelming you with joy and euphoria and the next, destroying your life.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1982

„Your first love has no beginning or end. Your first love is not your first love, and it is not your last. It is just love. It is one with everything.“

—  Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Cultivating the Mind of Love (2005) Full Circle Publishing ISBN 81-216-0676-4

„Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusions
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Quelle: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

„You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.“

—  Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020

„Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?“

—  Patricia Briggs, buch Frost Burned

Quelle: Frost Burned

„Don't play his game. Play yours.“

—  Rachel Caine, Fall of Night

Quelle: Fall of Night

„Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.“

—  Yip Harburg American song lyricist 1896 - 1981

"It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose).
Kontext: Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.

„Since when do we even play games?”

“Since when don’t we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between.”

I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. “Hello, Carter.“

—  Richelle Mead, Succubus on Top

Quelle: Succubus on Top

„Through your thoughts, you create your own games, and you win your own games because perhaps you have forgotten how to play the real game. What is the real game? It is the game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game that you will win.“

—  Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957

Madrid, Spain September 1992
1990s

„This is a state of grace
This is the worthwhile fight
Love is a ruthless game
Unless you play it good and right“

—  Taylor Swift American singer-songwriter 1989

State of Grace, written by Taylor Swift
Song lyrics, Red (2012)

„Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

"Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Kontext: Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

„Two disappointed believers
Two people playing the game
Negotiations and love songs
Are often mistaken for one and the same.“

—  Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

Train In The Distance
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)

„Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul…“

—  Marguerite Yourcenar, buch Memoirs of Hadrian

Quelle: Memoirs of Hadrian

„Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.“

—  Jack Kerouac American writer 1922 - 1969

"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variante: Be in love with your life every detail of it

„Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God's creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.“

—  Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian author 1821 - 1881

Book VI, chapter 3: "Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima; Of Prayer, of Love, and of Contact with other Worlds" (translated by Constance Garnett)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
Kontext: Brothers, have no fear of men's sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God's creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and untroubled joy. So do not trouble it, do not harass them, do not deprive them of their joy, do not go against God's intent. Man, do not exhale yourself above the animals: they are without sin, while you in your majesty defile the earth by your appearance on it, and you leave the traces of your defilement behind you — alas, this is true of almost every one of us! Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.
My young brother asked even the birds to forgive him. It may sound absurd, but it is right none the less, for everything, like the ocean, flows and enters into contact with everything else: touch one place, and you set up a movement at the other end of the world. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but, then, it would be easier for the birds, and for the child, and for every animal if you were yourself more pleasant than you are now. Everything is like an ocean, I tell you. Then you would pray to the birds, too, consumed by a universal love, as though in ecstasy, and ask that they, too, should forgive your sin. Treasure this ecstasy, however absurd people may think it.

„Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.“

—  Patch Adams Physician, activist, diplomat, author 1945

Quelle: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 10

„If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.“

—  Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Quelle: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

„Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.“

—  Max Lucado, Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours

Quelle: Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours