Diversionary Activities Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge of places is closely linked to knowledge of the self, to grasping one's position in the larger scheme of things, including one's own community, and to securing a confident sense of who one is a person. — Keith H. Basso

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. — Billy Graham

Always listening, listening to the wet fluid speech with no order, unfinished stories, badly told jokes that he sober as a spider perfected in silence. — Michael Ondaatje

Color ... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. — Charles Baudelaire

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within — Helen Keller

Tell me, Legolas, why did I come on this Quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would have never come, had I known the danger of light and joy. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing. — Joey Comeau