Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

Free time keeps me going.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

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.

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

My whole thing is quality of life. . .It must always be easy and low-maintenance and stress-free, and that means not trying to fit too much in. I don’t ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.

We have as much time as we need.

Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.