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It is the happy man who does the useless things; the sick man is not strong enough to be idle.
“for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of all significant effect and reduced to the level of a banality, philosophy will never prosper.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“From shadows and symbols into the truth.”
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“The freedom of a leisurely activity is the freedom from results or outcomes beyond it, not the freedom of rest or recreation.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“...happiness isn't to be pursued, it is to be enjoyed. Like life.”
― Bird Droppings
― Bird Droppings
“Why am I supposed to be afraid of the dark? People die from hunger, from cold, from injury and illness, but what peril is there in the sun going down? It is an interior darkness, the darkness of mind, that is deadly, not the dark of night.”
― A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
― A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
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