Good thing Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

— Marcus Aurelius

“Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled…

— Marcus Aurelius

“thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself,…

— Marcus Aurelius

“We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.”

— Seneca

What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it…

— Marcus Aurelius

“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

“It came upon me little by little. I came to like the life here, with its ease and its leisure, and the people, with…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each”

— John Charles Pollock

“Man’s mind, as well as his feet and devotion, wander easily, and we are readily given to changing our minds. Our attention wanders always,…

— Rousas John Rushdoony

“I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed…

— Roman Payne

“Life sometimes takes us down a path where our desires are attained, and some passions are left untouched, hidden but not forgotten.”

— Penelope Dianne Williams

“...for if our life is vagabond our memory is sedentary and though we ourselves rush ceaselessly forward our recollections, indissolubly bound to the sites…

— Marcel Proust