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Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
Stirling Moss
No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
Vance Havner
A is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.
George Orwell
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Jean Paul
For too much rest becomes a pain.
Homer
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
C. Neil Strait
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.