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“It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.”

Ideas History Useless Gates Uselessness

Author:Klemens von Metternich

“Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful.”

Needs Important Self Play Moments Seems Fun Forget Holy Sake Excuse Celebrate Productive Pace Timing Pretense Meadows Calves Uselessness Work Play

Author:Margaret Guenther

“A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.”

Ends Christian Religion Christianity Cost Prove Crosses Useless Crowns Deep Thought Unworthy Bishops Worthiness Uselessness

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.”

Mind Character Might Waste Practicals Dry Laziness Good Character Indolence Uselessness Good Mind Useful Life

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.”

“Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.”

Want Use Boys Missing Selling Useless Desperate Unrequited Love Chasing Unrequited Uselessness Salesperson

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.”

Years Littles States United United States Summer Tired Unimportant Walkers Pinnacle Uselessness

Book:Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“What's the Matter with the Mill?”

Matter Opposition Oblivion Rich And Poor Mills Uselessness Rich Poor Riches And Poors Dreamless Sleep

Author:Memphis Minnie

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.”

Ifs Doe Art Useless Usefulness Uselessness

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.”

Life Made Young Modern Useless Hopeless Isolated Modern Society Uselessness

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being