Leisure Quotes - Page 15

• Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.

  Yao Ming

  Jealous, Choices, Free Time

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• Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Joy, Bliss, Process

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Heart, Vacation

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• There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Valentine, Struggle, Fighting

  "The Count of Monte Cristo".

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• Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Self, Discovery

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• The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tired, Mean, Secret

  Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"

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• I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible.

  Rachilde

  Lust, Brain, Desire

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• At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

  Eric Jay Beck

  Lying, Climbing, Class

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• You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Business, Responsibility, Play

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• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

  John Wanamaker

  Funny, Time, Pyramids

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Heart, Solitude

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Caring, Thinking, Talking

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1822). “Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson: During the Last Twenty Years of His Life”, p.142

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• If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Soul, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.239

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• Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work, Men, Life Worth Living

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• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

  John Jay Chapman

  Heartbroken, Home, Ambition

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• And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

  John Milton

  Garden, Add, Pleasure

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 49

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• In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To Dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Faith, Dream

  Violet Fane, “In Green Old Gardens”

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• To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress, Action, Cult

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• One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Opportunity, Should Have

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hard Work, Night, Men

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• A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise

  Anna Laetitia Waring

  Sympathy, Heart

  Anna Laetitia Waring, “Father, I Know That All My Life”

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• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Meaningful, Art, Play

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• Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doctors, Evil, Disease

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• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Common

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• I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.

  Walter Huston

  Beer, People, Worry

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