Ray Bradbury Quotes

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

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.

I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

What I really like is to be at home, working.

I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

I'm barefoot whenever I can be.

I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.

I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity.

I don't want to put any pressure on myself. I just do what I do and have fun.

I love to be outside.

We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly, but not cling to them or curtail their freedoms. We should treasure the material world without seeking to own and control it.

I need to be bad. I don't want to burn out. I also don't want to be a person who is always performance-oriented. I also want to have some fun.

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play