Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been…

— Paul Goodman

“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a…

— Seneca

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

— Peg Bracken

“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults are not…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son…

— Neil L. Andersen

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help…

— Aldous Huxley

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.…

— Hermann E. Ott

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put…

— Margaret Thatcher

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it…

— Horace Walpole

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for…

— John Burroughs

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

“instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live.”

— Paulo Coelho

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more…

— Aaron Rodgers

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but…

— Randy Moss