#leisure

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#leisure #more

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#before #foster #leisurely #little #mount

For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all. ↗

— Ann Lamott

#death #leisure #work #death

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#leisure #love

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#leisure #imagination

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#solitude #life

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#cannot #classes #his #leisure #member

I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don’t care a straw about, but somehow, I’ve not been able to begin.” “You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#money #motivation #occupations #attitude

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows... ↗

— W.H. Davies

#poetry #time #w-h-davies #life

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

#had #having #i #improve #leisure