#leisure

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#contemplation #freedom #happiness #leisure #freedom

I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is what it means to live by the leisure principle. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #leisure #pain #pleasure #funny

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#class #got #i #i think #leisure

In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd put on my clothes and I'd walk outside, and the sunlight was brilliant, and the sounds were great. I felt powerful, like a recharged battery. But you know the first bring-down? The first human face I saw on the sidewalk, I lost half my charge right there. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#sleep #human-rights

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#hours #leisure #leisure time #night #six

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#effect #half #leisure #little #movement

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#basically #books #britain #classes #come

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

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#enjoying #entertaining #leisure #life #main

The busier we are the more leisure we have. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#leisure #more