Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I am capable of being idle.

I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

I enjoy the quiet life.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

I'm quite a simple person really; I love pottering about, walking and swimming.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

I don’t ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.