Activity Quote by Mortimer Adler Download Open image “Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.” — Mortimer Adler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Form Friendship Leisure
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
Friendship is being with a friend whose company is a pleasure and whose good advice is a treasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Friendship is like a sunrise. It begins dim, but grows in intensity as the day goes on. It warms the hearts and lives of… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It… — Benjamin Cheever Copy Share Image
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
