In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.
Stephen KingTag: boredom
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?
Hugh PratherTag: freedom change boredom chances discontent
Boredom is desire seeking desire.
Leo TolstoyTag: boredom
Boredom is for the selfish.
Patti DighTag: selfishness boredom moving-forward boredom-and-attitude keep-learning
The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthTag: boredom adventures
Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now, we've got being alive now and we have to be awake and alive in the moment and not asleep in our lives. And they would find the idea of sleeping through your life, of being bored - they would think that was very stupid - why would you be bored when there's so much to do and so much to see and so much to be?
Clive BarkerTag: life boredom abarat living-in-the-moment
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: life sherlock-holmes romance boredom commonplace engine audacity criminals sterile
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
Ally CarterTag: fear love revenge faith greed boredom
Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.
Philip YanceyThe writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Criss JamiTag: imagination art contentment solitude time loneliness creativity reflection alone curse growth perseverance writer boredom independent hard-work company author good-company contemplate blessed self-sufficient
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