Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Idleness Quotes
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
The higher men climb the longer their working day. And any young man with a streak of idleness in him may better make up his mind at the beginning that mediocrity will be his lot. Without immense, sustained effort he will not climb high. And even though fortune or chance were to lift him high, […]
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Blessed is the man that has found his work. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. Hard work, moreover, not only tends to give us rest for the body, but, what is even more important, peace to the mind.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
