Happiness Quote by Samuel Johnson

“appears that our first instinct is for idleness, but when given an excuse to be busy (even a meaningless one), we're liable to act…

— David DiSalvo

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

— William Faulkner

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

— Benjamin Franklin

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

— George Whitefield

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

— John Quincy Adams

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

— Anton Chekhov

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

— Tom Hodgkinson

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

— Samuel Johnson

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We will not lead completely happy lives unless we can be completely engaged in our activity; and quietly content in our idleness.”

— Tony Crabbe