Quotes About Activity

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

The cure for grief is motion.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

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

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the Gospel on the street corners and at the ends of the Earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.

Too revved to sleep. Is that so? Some of the light she loved was back in his eyes. Well, what can we do to pass the time, help you relax? Cribbage, perhaps? Her eyes narrowed. Cribbage? Is that some perverted sexual activity? He laughed, and grabbing her, tossed her onto the bed. Why not?

Mix up your routine, she told him as she started up the stairs. Your out-of-the-house routine. The shopping, the visiting gravesites, haunting houses with the other ghouls--whatever it is you do. Mix it up for the next few days. I have a scheduled haunting tonight, but it can be postponed.

Idle hands are the devil's workshop." "Why? They're idle when you're sleeping—does he set up shop then? Are we all supposed to stay awake using our hands so the devil doesn't make stuff? What if you broke your hand? Is he doing his workshop thing while you're waiting to have it fixed?

expect he'll be back on his feet in a day or two. I'll be working

International Resource Center on Criminal Activity

Joy was worn like a new suit of clothes on people. You could see it on every inch of them, from their step to their stare. But sadness and loss were hidden, kept quiet under composure and the shelter of daily activity.

Ci fu un silenzio tonante, ma solo nella stanza. Nella testa tatuata? Il suo cervello era attivissimo, ogni tipo di pensiero e immagine tormentavano la sua coscienza, era come se la sua materia grigia fosse diventata una scimmia e stesse lanciando merda per tutta la gabbia.

Ele não ficou satisfeito com a ideia de Arada de um 'eu' sendo limpo e purificado para o céu. Ele não viu 'eu' na matéria. Nada a ser purificado. E viu a cobiça pelo céu como nada além de atividade em um sonho. Ele soube que, quando observadas do ponto de vista da mente verdadeira, todas as coisas eram como castelos mágicos no ar.

Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to.