Quotes About Activity

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Happiness is a state of activity.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Happiness is a sort of action.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.

Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.