“The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.” PurposeHoursLearningMinutesActivityLeisure Author:Robert Updegraff
“most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.” PeopleYearsWarSufferingDiesFightingForeverMinutesBearsActivityMiseryPassive Author:Randall Jarrell
“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.” PeopleWorldStatesAgeYoungDeathSpiritNextLanguageMinutesDyingYouthActivityEternalSpringAbuseImmortalMidnightDesirableOther WorldsNoonFlourishingOne MinuteInfirmityDecrepit Author:Jeremy Collier
“Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.” HomeRunningReadingFourMinutesActivityEqualSticksEndureDelightMilesThrillingHeartedSlamHome RunStoutKeennessSlam Dunk Author:Irving Stone