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I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.
frittering our money away on extravagant trips
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on - and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don't love.
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
Curious by nature and reckless by choice
Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.
Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.
egocentric melodrama.
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not ... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
Tolerations are the seemingly inconsequential little things that drain away your energy.
caughtoutedness.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
Jealousy is the loss of joy.
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
The constant winds of petty appetite dissipate the power of response.
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
Petty mind mocks.
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity
the endless flow of life and death
than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
Frugal is an old-fashioned, mostly unused word and frugality is is an old-fashioned mostly unused virtue that has been waiting for hard times to come back. The Scots have another word for it - canny.
Keith Smith, Hard Times Handbook, 1984
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.
Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene
Appreciate youthful exuberance.
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.
Now that I think about it, it seems to me that's what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.
I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
Pastime with good company
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I.
The thrill of being ignored!
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.
A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.
that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
People jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. Nothing sways them from the habit - not illness, not the sacrifice of love and relationship, not the loss of all earthly goods, not the crushing of their dignity, not the fear of dying. The drive is that relentless.
Fretting rises from our determination to have our own way. Our Lord never worried and was never anxious, because His purpose was never to accomplish His own plans but to fulfill God's plans. Fretting is wickedness for a child of God.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.
Buggeration and Fuckery
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life.
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.
Frugality is for the vulgar.
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
What are the politics of boredom?
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
The neuroses parody the virtues.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it's equally possible that he's simply a bored creep looking for a cheap thrill.
Pursuit of passion,
Decorum
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
This disease of curiosity.
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.
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
Fangirl rage. It demands to be feared.
Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.
Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
It is a profound boredom, profound, the profound heart of existence, the very matter I am made of.
It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.
Diversion weakens thy mind.
Boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.