The end of labor is to gain leisure.
It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised...
The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own ...
Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays we...
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to repla...
His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, “Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. “Yeah, I’m a regular marathon alright.�...
As more and more work is done by machines, people can spend more time on other activities. Not just leisure and amusements, but also on the deeper satisfactions that come from invention and exploration, from creativity and building, and from love, fr...
...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that there is little time and space in which to explore emancipatory potentialities outside what is marketed as 'creative' adventure, leisure, and spectac...
I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a feudal order: the aristocratic dispensation of leisure time, the refinements of the self. With the shift from fe...
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
