Active Quote by Raymond Williams

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

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

“For most of us the time we spend at our work is a large part of our whole lives, and as our job usually…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to…

— Bob Black

How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our…

— J. Richard Clarke

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind.…

— Vernon Lee

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function,…

— Josef Pieper

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

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

— Mortimer Adler

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being…

— George Bernard Shaw