Updated: Dec 16, 2023
Are you making the most of your free time? The quotes below will remind you just how important your free time is.
1. "Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time."
— Doug Coupland
2. "We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are." ― Bill Watterson
3. "The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now." ― Leo Babauta
4. "Enjoy today. It is one of the good old days you will miss in the future." Etta Sawyerr
5. "Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." — Margaret Peters
6. "There's only one thing more precious than our time and that's who we spend it on." — Leo Christopher
7. "Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time to be yourself."
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8. "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." Martha Troly-Curtin
9. "What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment."- Nassim Taleb
10. "You need me-time. Not because others don't deserve your attention but you do."
11. "Life is short. Time is fast. No replay. No rewind. So enjoy every moment as it comes."
12. "Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book." - E. A. Bucchianeri
13. "Free...Yes...Free Time is what retirement brings. Leisure, lounging, and loafing and other lazy things." - John Walter Bratton
14. "Hard work done for a hobby don't feel so hard!"
Amit Kalantri,
15. "A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies, and adopting new viewpoints."
Wilfred Peterson
16. "This is very important — to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything…just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful. "
17. "Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. "Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills."
C. Neil Strait
19. "In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
Ovid
20. "There's only one thing more precious than our time and that's who we spend it on." — Leo Christopher