Quotes About Leisure

On its own, my spirit seemed to relax, like a folding chair let out by a pool.

I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.

The shame of it—the cost of leisure being someone else's hard labor and broken body.

what is the foundation of contemplative life? 'Oh, she said, without a pause -- leisure, it's based on leisure.

She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.

failure in marriage is usually due to four causes. He lists them in this order: • 1. Sexual maladjustment. • 2. Difference of opinion as to the way of spending leisure time. • 3. Financial difficulties. • 4. Mental, physical, or emotional abnormalities.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

tourists smelling of UV lotion and cannabis.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?

If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.

I want to relax and spend time with my family.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

"It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where every day is your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make every day a play-day…"

"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."

As a professional ballet dancer, I have to accept that weekends are about work. The notion of a leisurely break with all the buzz and excitement of a Friday night simply doesn't exist for me.

"It's Friday… any plan of being a productive member of society is officially thrown out the window."

As the summer moves on, there are Saturday nights when I come home and find friends I haven't even been out with sitting up in the hot tub.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

I've always played my best golf in the summer.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I've ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.