#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

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

— Dallas Willard

#leisure #imagination

I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.
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— Jarod Kintz

#degree #economic-depression #english #job #leisure

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. ↗

— George MacDonald

#meditation #solitude #mac

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

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

— Cyril Connolly

#cannot #classes #his #leisure #member

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ↗

— George Byron

#far #haste #hatred #leisure #longest

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#grave #laziness #leisure #life #sleeping

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#doing #lazy #leisure #never #obtain

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy