Defined Quote by Vernon Lee Download Open image “What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.” — Vernon Lee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Felt Inspirational Leisure Love Mean
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 Copy Share Image
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“If there are such things as ghosts," he replied, "I don't think they should be taken lightly. God would not permit them to be,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling;… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“The fact is, that having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
