To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — John Stott Copy Share Image
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers… — Raymond Cruz Copy Share Image
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the… — W.H. Davies Copy Share Image
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the… — Anna Laetitia Waring Copy Share Image
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image