Competition Quote by Louis Kronenberger

“If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion…

— Brené Brown

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

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

— Vernon Lee

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic…

— Lin Yutang

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

— Jules Verne

“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude…

— Roland Barthes

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

— Mason Cooley

“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time in which…

— Stephen Covey

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

— George Zimmerman

“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

“We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces...”

— Blaise Pascal

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

— Lyndon B. Johnson