#leisure

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

— Dallas Willard

#leisure #imagination

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

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

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#mother #philosophy

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cultured #every #fortunately #good #good thing

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. ↗

— Clive Bell

#class #crowd #leisure #mistake #wage-earners

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

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. ↗

— Willie Mays

#also #baseball #business #combat #disguised

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#i #importance #leisure #lives #many