Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time leisure life value

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: work leisure balance

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort relaxation leisure

To fill the hour, and leave no creavice...that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness work leisure life

I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet hours.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: leisure aging solitude relaxation

I pray you... Your play needs no excuse. Never excuse.
William Shakespeare Simple Abundance
Categories: play joy creativity relaxation leisure

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: inspiration creativity meditation solitude leisure

...his delight is in the law of the LORD, ``and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
Psalm 1:2-3 Holy Bible
Categories: inspiration creativity meditation solitude leisure

Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber Simple Abundance
Categories: play creativity joy possibilities leisure relaxation

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work leisure rest balance life

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: relaxation leisure work values priorities balance

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor
Categories: leisure attention appreciation gratitude purpose fulfillment

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: rest relaxation leisure growth learning education

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have--leisure and a quiet mind.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: leisure balance relaxation priorities serenity calm peace

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: leisure work effort priorities success courage bravery

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman Deep Play
Categories: play creativity experimentation leisure relaxation exploration discovery

You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work play rest laughter leisure balance life

Knowing that no one avoids sorrow, humiliation, pain, or death creates a foundation for universal, unconditional compassion. If we know that these things cannot be avoided, then we might try to compete, wish, hope, and fear a little less frantically, which could make life more fun. In other words, when we really get it that life will be painful at times, we become more inclined to "stop and smell the roses."
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: pain tragedy sorrow despair depression mistakes failure common groud leisure joy happiness

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life meaning fulfillment purpose spirituality happiness joy relaxation leisure living busyness smell the roses rest

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: peace calm serenity rest relaxation leisure meditation stress anxiety worry serenity calm peacefulness calmness prayer comfort