Hobbies Quotes

"My hobbies include rubbing my nipples across a cheese grater, meeting cat ladies on Tinder, and voting for either Democrat or Republican every four years. You could say I am a torture enthusiast."

Jarod Kintz

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."

Criss Jami

"Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand."

Alan Bennett

"आयुष्यात मला भावलेलं एक गुज सांगतो. उपजिविकेसाठीआवश्यक असणाऱ्या विषयाचं शिक्षण जरुर घ्या. पोटापाण्याचा उद्योग जिद्दीनं करा, पण एवढ्यावरच थांबू नका. साहित्य, चित्र, संगीत, नाट्य, शिल्प, खेळ ह्यांतल्या एखाद्या तरी कलेशी मैत्री जमवा. पोटापाण्याचा उद्योग तुम्हाला जगवील, पण कलेशी जमलेली मैत्री तुम्ही का जगायचं हे सांगून जाईल.- पु. ल."

P.L. Deshpande

"I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it."

Anaïs Nin

"Passion is a deep love for sacred activity."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in."

Carl R White

"If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?"

Kara Lee Corthron, The Truth of Right Now

"Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it."

Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years

"I love the pleasure of reading poetry."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"Read a short story every day."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

"There is never enough time to enjoy what you love."

Joyce Rachelle

"What you do with ease is your passion. It is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream ."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"To be happy in life, develop at least four hobbies: one to bring you money, one to keep you healthy, one to bring you joy, and one to bring you peace."

Stan Jacobs, The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life

"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days."

Terry Pratchett, Thud!

"Writing is not a hobby. It's the only way I get to shut up the demons in my head."

Mark Maish

"Addiction to reading... There are worse things in the world to be Addicted to. I admire your hobby choice it's mine as well."

Christy A. Mair

"Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies."

Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

"My hobbies are reading, writing, listening to music and dancing."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"What you feed in yourself that grows."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."

Joyce Rachelle

"It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last."

Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about."

Joyce Rachelle

"As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby."

Amit Kalantri

"I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper."

Amit Kalantri

"Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much."

Amit Kalantri

"The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their significance eats its way even into adult brains. They started to symbolize other things compensating for or reinforcing the parents' own failures."

Fredrik Backman, Beartown

"Life will only have a meaning once you've achieved to find your true passion and love within the limitless boundaries of destiny"

Callum Illman

"You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire."

Shannon L. Alder

"Hobbies are like flowers on plant. They make the plant look beautiful and feel Proud."

Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You

"Gaming was "one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing." But even more than that, "It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need."

Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

"Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative."

Anonymous

"The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it."

Shannon L. Alder

"All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books."

Amit Kalantri

"Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality."

Amit Kalantri

"As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored."

Amit Kalantri

"We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading."

Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

"One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest."

James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

"The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency..."

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

"It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things."

Marty Rubin

"At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds."

Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."

David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Dancing can be addictive if you like it."

J. Lynn, Wait for You

"I’m just surprised your parents let you go online,” Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn’t exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony."

Cassandra Clare, The Iron Trial

"I'm really into fitness, so my hobbies are yoga, Pilates, and working out."

Charlotte McKinney