Quotes about Leisure

Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry.

May your kingdom come in all that I think, desire, and say. May your kingdom come in my marriage and in my family. May your kingdom come in my work. May your kingdom come in my leisure. May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.

look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

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.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

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.

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.