Culture, as I understand it, is essentially a product of leisure. The art of culture is therefore essentially the art of loafing.
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.
I find that those people who agree with me in believing in lying in bed as one of the greatest pleasures of life are the honest men, while those who do not believe in lying in bed are liars and actually lie a lot in the daytime, morally and physically.
Zhuangzi·300 BCForget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
Thomas Merton·1958Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard.
Jane Austen·1815...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
