Quotes About Activity

It's wise to learn how to cook,' Kessligh fumed, 'but a meal prepared over three weeks is inedible! There is wisdom in action! So stop talking, and act!

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

All play means something.

On Lenore's street when she was a kid, everyone played softball and policed the rules themselves. Today, they go to organized activities where the adults intervene all the time to tell them what the rules are. Free play has been turned into supervised play, and so—like processed food—it has been drained of most of its value.

Il malumore e la pigrizia sono in tutto simili, perché il malumore è una specie di pigrizia. A questa siamo portati per natura, e tuttavia se troviamo la forza per reagire ecco che il lavoro diviene agevole e l'attività un vero piacere.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Unqualified activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy.

Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk-we move!

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

To live is not breathing it is action.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Don't live life as a spectator.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.