Quotes About Leisure

After closing your day's business, devote a part of the evening to your family and friends, and a part of it to some good book.

Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.

But the worst touristification is the life we moderns have to lead in captivity, during our leisure hours: Friday night opera, scheduled parties, scheduled laughs. Again, golden jail. This goal-driven attitude hurts deeply inside my existential self.

For the classics, philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me, a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

But the worse touristification is the life we moderns have to lead in captivity, during our leisure hours: Friday night opera, scheduled parties, scheduled laughs. Again, golden jail. This "goal-driven" attitude hurts deeply inside my existential self.

What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.

though being forced to read for lack of other activities is not as enjoyable as

as he can carry a library on his device and "optimize" his time between golf outings.

Now being lazy, considering laziness as an asset, and eager to free up the maximum amount of time in my day to meditate and read

when done right, the job allows considerable free time.

Aportarán también su profundo y obstinado amor por el ocio, por la contemplación, por una vida solitaria y apartada, y el deseo de una época en el que haya un amplio espacio para los que no tienen ganas de hacer nada.

They haven't the mental equipment for leisure.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in open air.

Work makes prosperous days, wine makes happy Sundays. - Wine and Hashish

This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain

Don't you go to the movies? Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little.

What do you do all day? I just stay in bed. That's awful. No, it's nice. I like it.

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

Hey, Bubu, a bottle of good French wine...Sip it slowly, do you most good. You'll sleep. Be happy. And if you want to come downstairs, dance and sing, talk, ok. Do what you want. Here's the wine.

Sunday, the worst god-damned day of them all.

What do I think is important? Good wine, good plumbing and to be able to sleep late in the mornings.