Leisure Quotes - Page 14

• It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure pursuits. These are all part of our lives. It is important to keep all of our parts in working order.

  Helen Lynch

  Women, Order, Ties

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• God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Thinking, Patient

  "My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: Features the Author's Daily Prayers".

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• If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

  R. H. Tawney

  Inspirational, Children, Work

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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• Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Writing, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.32, Anchor

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• There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Beautiful, Real, Sunday

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• People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Writing, Long Ago, People

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• Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dedication, Faces, Quiet

  Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.5, GENERAL PRESS

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• Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

  Andre Gide

  Done, Excellent

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• The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Ideas, Charm

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.77, Grove Press

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• It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that. Like, if you give a tithe, He'll make you rich. Why? Are you hacking Him off or something? If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent. Cause God can handle money better than we can.

  Rich Mullins

  Jesus, Thinking, Roots

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• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Sight, Doors

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• ...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.

  E. Lockhart

  Summer, Morning, Block

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.72, Hot Key Books

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• Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at table and recreation (no hurry here either). But isn't it strange how those same Christians find themselves in such a rush and want to hurry the priest, in their anxiety to shorten the time devoted to the most holy sacrifice of the altar?

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Sacrifice, Anxiety

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• By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'

  Gerolamo Cardano

  Men, Light, Games

  Gerolamo Cardano (2015). “The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability”, p.57, Courier Dover Publications

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• Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mean, Liberty, May

  James Russell Lowell (1900). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

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• Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

  Guy Debord

  Emptiness, Justified, Impossibility

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• It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

  George MacDonald

  Running, Way, Sides

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Princess and the Goblin”, p.65, Xist Publishing

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• The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

  Max Weber

  Religious, Emotional, Class

  Max Weber (1952). “The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism”, p.84, Vani Prakashan

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• if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wish, Wit, Subjects

  C. S. Lewis (2001). “The Wisdom of Narnia”, HarperCollins

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• Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Sunday, Language

  Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.67, Profile Books

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• Chaos is the penance for leisure.

  Amy Tan

  Penance, Chaos

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.17, Penguin

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• The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Prayer, Spirit

  Thomas Merton, (2013). “Thomas Merton - Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.51, Read Books Ltd

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• If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.

  J. G. Ballard

  Weekend, Play, Eden

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.99, Macmillan

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• 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

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Flower, Fall

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• If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Son, Men

  "In praise of idleness: and other essays".

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