Quotes about Leisure
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
— Brigham Young
Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: 'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.
— Edith Wharton
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.
— Cicero
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do
— Oscar Wilde
Play and Recreation The key here is to engage in activities that are pure and healthy and that breathe life into you.
— Peter Scazzero
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.
— Peter Kreeft
Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry.
— Oswald Chambers
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
— Henry David Thoreau
The trouble with life in America today is not that we work too much but that our free time is too much engaged in play and amusement so that too little of it is left for the kind of leisure activities that really are the most profitable part of human life.
— Mortimer Adler
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
— Samuel Johnson