Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don't achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That's what I do.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but that's okay. Your peace of mind is more important. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age. They could have enjoyed life.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

I took some time out for life.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.

Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Now that I'm older, I see the benefits of having free time to release energy.

I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.

We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute.

Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.

I'm really trying to be relaxed on my days off.

I really know what it's like to work and live every moment now, and I'm really grateful for that.