Age Quote by Gunter Grass

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in…

— Aristotle

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss…

— E. F. Schumacher

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

Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a rich and…

— Amy Morin

“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

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

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

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

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately,…

— Rose Macaulay

The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the non-material things…

— Louis O. Kelso

“For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and…

— Gordon T. Smith