"Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition."

-- Josef Pieper

#Mad Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason”
“The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...”
“The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.”
“We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.”
“God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!”
“Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.”
“Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.”
“Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.”

Source : Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers

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