Identity Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!”

— Friedrich Schlegel

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

— Benjamin Franklin

“Now, life, ordinary, jolly, heathen, human life, is simply chockful of these dead words and meaningless ceremonies. You will not escape from them by…

— G.K. Chesterton

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily…

— Francis Quarles

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in…

— Benedict of Nursia

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

— Robert Burton

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul…

— Julianna Baggott