It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Interpretation
Laziness and excess result in a state of unrest and dissatisfaction.
In this quote, Samuel Johnson highlights the consequences of laziness and gluttony, suggesting that those who indulge in idleness and overindulgence will find themselves in a state of discomfort and unease. Rather than achieving true relaxation, their inactivity leads to restlessness and a lack of peace, emphasizing the irony that indulgence does not automatically lead to satisfaction or happiness.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage productivity and a balanced lifestyle.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.
EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION
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