Quotes about Leisure

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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. T — Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Time is a game played beautifully by children. — Heraclitus, Fragments
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give — John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good... — CrimethInc., Evasion
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursu — Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There — Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as l — W.H. Davies, The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
What is this life so full of care,We don't have time to stand and stare. — W.H. Davies, The Collected Poems of William H. Davies; With a Portrait
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her m — François-René de Chateaubriand
I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so ear — Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the — D.S. Mixell
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a — Patricia Hampl, Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. — Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary ex — Wilkie Collins, My Miscellanies
I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, r — Tom Petty
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his m — Lawrence Pearsall Jacks