#Activity Quotes

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

“A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.”

“The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.”

“When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.”

“Motion is the sign of life.”

“[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.”

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”

“Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.”

“Occupation is the scythe of time.”

“To be busy is man's only happiness.”

“I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.”

“Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.”

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

“Nights are not just for sleep.”

“What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.”

“Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.”

“Work makes a callus against grief.”

“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.”

“Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.”

“He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.”

“Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.”

“The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.”

“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.”

“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”

“Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.”

“Activity leads to productivity!”

“Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.”

“It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.”

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

“I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.”

“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.”

“O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.”

“Patience is the art of finding something else to do.”

“Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.”

“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”

“But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.”

“I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!”

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”

“You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.”

“Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.”

“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

“I love being active.”

“This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”

“The used key is always bright.”

“Happiness is a state of activity.”

“Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.”