Diversion Quote by Brigham Young

How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our…

— J. Richard Clarke

“Recreations are needful at times; but take care of these two things, that your recreations be innocent in themselves, and that you be moderate…

— Augustus Toplady

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation…

— Brigham Young

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

— Samuel I. Prime

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by…

— Dorothy Thompson

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

— Martha Beck

The best recreation is to do good.

— William Penn

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function,…

— Josef Pieper

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in…

— Samuel Johnson

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

— Harriet Martineau