Vanalottiel Olanthir

“Separated from the sphere of divine worship, of the cult of the divine, and from the power it radiates, leisure is as impossible as the celebration of a feast. Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work inhuman.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

“Leisure cannot be achieved at all when it is sought as a means to an end, even though that end be “the salvation of Western civilization”. Celebration of God in worship cannot be done unless it is done for its own sake. That most sublime form of affirmation of the world as a whole is the fountainhead of leisure.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

“The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side. The”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“The soul of leisure, it can be said, lies in “celebration”. Celebration is the point at which the three elements of leisure come to a focus: relaxation, effortlessness, and superiority of “active leisure” to all functions.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture