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Leisure Quotes The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
It takes a highly intellectual individual to enjoy leisure. . . . Most of us had better count on working. What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement. . . . Few people overwork; plenty overeat, overworry, overdrink. . . . Few realize real joy and happiness of conquest. The basis of mental health for the average adult is more work, provided the work is not mere drudgery
But there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
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