Quotes About Leisure

he lay on a chaise longue under the cedar tree with lemonade constantly at his elbow. In those

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

The culture of a given time and place is a product of inherited tradition, of the recovery of lost or obscured forms of thought, of innovation. Such seeds, fertilized by prosperity, tended by leisure, and warmed by the sun of peace, may produce an abundant bloom.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Su renta por trabajo es más cara y su ocio más barato, así que tenderá a trabajar menos.

Atheists enjoy weekends, even though they are more religious, rather than scientific.

Too much isolation can be a danger to you and your health. It is a hazard to the common people, as well as a benefit to those who know how to use their free time.

Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

...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 the open air.

If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with sticks, hit things with sticks. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.

The fear of judgment is the key fear that stems from over-identifying who you are, your worth as a person, with your work. From this fear follows the counterproductive drive toward perfectionism, severe self-criticism, and the fear that you must deprive yourself of leisure time in order to satisfy some unseen judge.

The Now Habit is based on the fact that somewhere in your life there are leisure activities and forms of work that you choose to do without hesitation [...] When you turn your attention toward what you love to do—activities that foster your spontaneity, motivation, and curiosity—you know that you are more than a procrastinator, more than just lazy.

can barely remember those days, when I had the whole summer off to read.

I was to have a working holiday, the only kind of holiday I knew how to take.

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom ' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom.

The most precise and shortest definition of a true civilization has been given by Trevelyan: A leisured class with large and learned libraries in their country seats.

Gradually, therefore, Tientietnikov grew more at home in the Service. Yet never did it become, for him, the main pursuit, the main object in life, which he had expected. No, it remained but one of a secondary kind. That is to say, it served merely to divide up his time, and enable him the more to value his hours of leisure.

One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do!

For the rest, he was large and good-natured, and had a habit of amusing himself with occasional spells of knitting.