"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

Lifestyle, Idleness, Rest, Culture, Reflection

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"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

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"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Lifestyle, KingdomCulture, Earth, Living

"Susannah continued. 'If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."

Jenny Han, American Novelist

Lifestyle, Life, Appearance, Observation, Truth

"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lifestyle, Tradition, Experience, Wisdom, Trust

"And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Lifestyle, Gardening, Climate, Life, Happiness

"The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Lifestyle, Life, Example, Influence, Guidance

"I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Lifestyle, Solitude, Books, Escape, Reflection

"Leisure is being allowed to do nothing."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Lifestyle, Leisure, Rest, Relaxation, Freedom

"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Lifestyle, Life, Speed, Preference, Action

"If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Lifestyle, Health, Observation, Food

"My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids."

Joel Osteen, American Clergyman

Lifestyle, Family, Happiness, Joy, Love

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"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

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"This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything."

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"Fear is faithlessness."

Spiritual

"You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now."

Patience

"To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace-the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us."

Philosophy

"Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value."

Productivity

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

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"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."

"Susannah continued. 'If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."

"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

"And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter."

"The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example."

"I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world."

"Leisure is being allowed to do nothing."

"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."

"If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits."

"My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids."

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"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

"This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything."

"Fear is faithlessness."

"You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now."

"A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear."

"It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh."

"Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here."

"To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace-the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us."

"Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value."

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."