Pastoral Resources

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.