The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: idleness
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
Tom HodgkinsonOur dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
Tom HodgkinsonOf all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
François de La RochefoucauldInventory:
"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
Stichwörter: wisdom life friends doubt love knowledge laughter contentment sorrow hope curiosity values idleness envy champagne foes inventory sufficienty superfluity unattainable
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: life solitude idleness
Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an inscription appeared: "You do not practice what you know. Why do you seek what you do not know?
Ali bin Uthman Al-HujwiriStichwörter: idleness
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: fear friends children death sex mothers misery idleness proust impotence anguish proust-questionnaire
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.
Jane LindskoldHe knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert CamusStichwörter: greatness time idleness retirement
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