It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.
– Joubert
Related Quotes:
- Tenderness is the repose of passion. – Joseph Joubert
- Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. – Bryant McGill
- Laziness – The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. – Idries Shah
- Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love – Bryant McGill
- Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. – Bryant McGill
- Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good? – Augustine of Hippo
- Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. – John Muir
- You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can’t cope. – Jalaluddin Rumi
- Repose not trust in testing another’s degree of honesty at the risk of one’s loss in matters big, unless collateralized. – Firoozeh Dumas
- Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. – Susan Abulhawa
- Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain! – William Hazlitt
- Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve. – AM Homes
- The one who can smile without an outer reason is a mental case for many, but the one who cannot -˜needs mental therapy! – Harrish Sairaman
- An idea is a mental spark, a mindset is a mental inferno – Danny Dover
- life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once. – Irma Joubert
- The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. – Joseph Joubert
- Fear feeds the imagination. – Joubert
- War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks. – Irma Joubert
- Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion. – Joubert
- Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. – Joseph Joubert
- Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with. – Irma Joubert
- Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course. – Joseph Joubert
- Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety. – Joseph Joubert
- Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts! – Joubert
- Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet? – Joubert
- Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them. – Joubert Botha
- There are those to whom one must advise madness. – Joseph Joubert
- There are those to whom one must advise madness. – Joseph Joubert
- Always polish the dirt for a refreshing start and seek out to build new mental structures that can help you to become rejuvenated. – Saaif Alam
- There may be arrogance -“ and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that. – George F Will
- The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness. – Amanda Craig
- Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR?Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech – Kamil Ali
- I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow. – Assegid Habtewold
- It is not the dream of what you’re feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. – Edmondo de Amicis
- A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness. – Debasish Mridha
- I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness. – Bill Callahan
- Laziness always wins. – Tibor Fischer