Active Quote by Elsa Barker

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.

— Benjamin Franklin

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have…

— Aristotle

“I'm not lazy, simply adept at leisure”

— Bemy Wells

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of…

— Josef Pieper

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder…

— Anonymous

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from…

— Aristotle

“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment. Compared…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero