inactivity QUOTES

1 " When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios. "

― Margery Allingham , Dancers in Mourning (Albert Campion Mystery, #9)

2 " To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)! "

― Dada Bhagwan

3 " Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness. "

4 " Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done. "

― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

5 " In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places. "

― Jim George , A Man After God's Own Heart

6 " Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time. "

7 " I believe that human beings are designed to be physically active and that not doing so creates energy imbalances within the body that ultimately contribute to obesity and other health problems. As evidence, over 500,000 people die each year from diseases linked to physical inactivity and obesity. Furthermore, rates of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, type 2 diabetes, and certain forms of cancer have all tripled over the past 30 years corresponding to decreasing levels of daily physical activity and increasing rates of obesity. "

8 " Winter
The season between autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
the coldest months of the year:
December, January and February.

A period of inactivity or decay. "

― Cecelia Ahern

9 " One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces. "

10 " Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius. "

11 " Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. "