#idleness

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#time #wasting-time #nothing

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗