123 quotes found
“The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.”
“Getting bored is not allowed.”
“One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.”
“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”
“We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.”
“Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
“Dullness is a misdemeanor.”
“Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.”
“One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?”
“Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.”
“This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad.”
“It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.”
“That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.”
“The only menace is inertia.”
“Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities o...”
“Boredom like necessity is very often the mother of invention.”
“Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.”
“A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.”
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
“We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.”
