Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Pope FrancisI’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.
Elvis PresleyThe man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar WildeI make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.
Abby Lee MillerI can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo CoelhoA 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.
Henry David ThoreauKnowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.
Charles SpurgeonUsually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
Thich Nhat HanhWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl JungMy general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘
Richard BransonGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis BaconRemind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.
Robert GreeneI never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Benjamin DisraeliEverything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David BowieEating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.
Maya AngelouI don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
Jim CarreyI, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Groucho MarxMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiEnjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
John C. MaxwellThe vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander PopeThere are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.
Joyce MeyerI have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don’t think so.
Marilyn MonroeWe never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiA man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert EinsteinIt is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma GandhiWhen someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George CarlinWe go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.
Billy GrahamI have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. TrumanI’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
Bill GatesBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SocratesLife is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob MarleyWe are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.
Anthony HopkinsNumber of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Dalai LamaI am two with nature.
Woody AllenIf you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.
Joyce MeyerIt’s a lot of fun to fight.
Jim MattisHmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.
Mr. THe who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao TzuIt’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Elon MuskYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaI hid myself in food.
Gordon RamsayIf you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
Wayne DyerLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James MadisonThe music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
Bad BunnyTake no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce LeeNobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.
Anthony BourdainI, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony BourdainYou always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.
Abby Lee MillerWhen you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
Eckhart TolleMemories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Eckhart TolleI’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
Lady GagaFor my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.
Lando NorrisI really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.
Kevin GatesI never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine HepburnHave you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart TolleI won’t eat anything green.
Kurt CobainMan does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho MarxGoals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian TracyI like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
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