Quotes about Activity

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Any action is better than no action at all.

Addiction is bondage to the rule of a substance, activity, or state of mind, which then becomes the center of life, defending itself from the truth so that even bad consequences don't bring repentance, and leading to further estrangement from God.

I need to go out and play football and have fun. If I do that, then everything will be fine.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

I try to switch things up by going for a bike ride or taking a SoulCycle class.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance—not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.