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. — Fulton J. Sheen
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. — Ovid
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. — George Soros
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J. Peter
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. — Josef Pieper
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Arthur Lacey
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation. — Ashton Kutcher
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. — John Wanamaker
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. — George Eastman
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. — Scipio Africanus
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Bertrand Russell
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. — William Hazlitt
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. — John Lennon
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. — Elfriede Jelinek
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca The Elder
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca
Leisure Time Image Quotes
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
Beautiful Leisure Time Quotes
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate. — Anais Nin
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau
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. — Henry David Thoreau
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that. — Dorothy Allison
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. — Dorothy Allison
Leisure Time Activities Quotes
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen
The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own. — Raymond Williams
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. — Gary Gygax
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. — Peg Bracken
I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity. — Ben Goldacre
One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose. — Katrina Onstad
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need. — Jay Leno
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity. — Paul Zane Pilzer
Leisure Quotes
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days. — Jerry Falwell
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. — John Gunther
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. — Winston Churchill
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. — Audrey Hepburn
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms. — Alice Walker
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. — Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen
Leisure Activities Quotes
The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. — Patrick Murray
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active. — Niall Ferguson
Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure. — Po Bronson
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. — Mortimer Adler
My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. — Michael Strahan
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. — George Bernard Shaw
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding. — Richard Jeni
I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. — Elsa Barker
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness. — Henry Ward Beecher
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure. — Robert Updegraff
Work And Leisure Quotes
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
Do the things you enjoy within reason. Know your body and what works for you and you’ll be fine. — Meghan Markle
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
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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
I do not have time to put a lot of work into organizing social events and a social life. — Sam Bankman-Fried
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. — Sean Bean
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. — Henry David Thoreau
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die. — Jaime Lerner
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time. — Theodore Zeldin
Life is about balance, you have to have time for work, and time for play. If you don’t allow these two things to co-exist you have an imbalance. — Jay-Z
Free Time Quotes
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all. — Sojourner Truth
There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone. — Neymar
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE. — Assata Shakur
No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go. — Henry Rollins
We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free. — Leymah Gbowee
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. — Douglas Coupland
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. — Eugene V. Debs
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. — Doug Coupland
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself. — Max Keiser
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. — Jensen Huang
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. — Johnny Depp
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw
It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony. — R.K. Narayan
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner. — Lin Yutang
I am not too much into Netflix and Amazon because spending quality time with family is more valuable. — Smriti Mandhana
Man Of Leisure Quotes
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
All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself. — Michel Quoist
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. — Henry David Thoreau
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. — H. L. Mencken
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. — Marcus Aurelius
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. — Oscar Wilde
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. — Benjamin Disraeli
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure. — Aristotle
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles? — Leonardo da Vinci
Spare Time Quotes
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Pablo Picasso
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Edward L. Bernays
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. — Marian Wright Edleman
No matter what you think your values are, your actions tell the real story. What we do with our spare time shows what we value. — Jay Shetty
Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Edward Bernays
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript. — Karl Marlantes
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time. — Leon M. Lederman
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. — Ivan Pavlov
Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy. — Craig Parker
The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money. — David Kim
Business And Leisure Quotes
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. — Jeremy Collier
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. — Gunther Grass
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness. — Gunther Grass
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. — James Anthony Froude
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. — Gunter Grass
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. — Samuel Johnson
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. — Aristotle
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money. — Sayings
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained. — Aristotle
Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems. — Unknown
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. — John Woolman
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. — Edie Sedgwick
It's too bad that 'Dragon Ball,' which I drew for a very long time, has ended. Just kidding. I'm incredibly glad. Now I can just leisurely sit around! — Akira Toriyama
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful. — Charles Bukowski
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own). — Richard Louv
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want. — Prince Philip
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. — Isocrates
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin
Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes. — Michael Marmot
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. — Benjamin Franklin
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. — Margaret Mead
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. — Benjamin Franklin
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. — Henry David Thoreau
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment. — Michael Ventura
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett
I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships. — Joy Behar
You can’t happily sustain success in your professional life if you neglect your personal “recreational” time. — Gary Keller
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. — Jared Diamond
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life. — Sam Keen
I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay. — Nicholas Sparks
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. — Guy Debord
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. — Marilynne Robinson
I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time. — Cher Wang
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider. — Louise J. Kaplan
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. — Saint Basil
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does. — George Bernard Shaw
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. — Henry David Thoreau
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