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“Find three hobbies you love: One to make you money, one to keep you in shape and one to be creative.”
― Anonymous

“I have no hobby. As far as my activities beyond the bounds of my recognized profession are concerned, I take them all, without exception, very seriously. So much so, that I should be horrified by the idea that they had anything to do with hobbies—preoccupations in which I had become mindlessly infatuated in order to kill the time—had I not become hardened by experience to such examples of this now widespread, barbarous mentality.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry

“Volcano surfing
is a sport in which a person
rides down an active volcano
at speeds up to 50 miles per hour
using nothing but a wooden board.

When I heard about this activity,
I thought to myself,
it must be nice to feel so safe,
you have to invent new ways to
put yourself in danger.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Each of our souls has a deep urge to confess something about its nature. It sits still within us, until we come across a certain song, book, movie or person. Then everything changes.”
― Ilwaad isa

“You could do worse than to spend your days staring at blue jays.”
― Julie Zickefoose, Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay

“Às vezes sentava-me na rede, balançando-me com o livro aberto no colo, sem tocá-lo, em êxtase puríssimo.

Não era mais uma menina com um livro: era uma mulher com o seu amante.”
― Clarice Lispector, Felicidade Clandestina

“I think it's bizarre and tragic how society pushes us to say what we are because of the job we do. The question "What do you do?" really means what do they pay you for, as if that's your defining characteristic. Everything else is a "hobby." But those are also things you are and do. Just because you don't make money at it doesn't mean you're not doing it. It's as valid as going to the office, maybe more so.”
― Rose McGowan, Brave

“Count yourself blessed if you have something you love to do, but you are rarely able to do it because you're too busy doing something else you love even more.”
― Josh Steimle

“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints”
― Wilfred Peterson

“Try new hobbies. Develop new interests. Pursue new experiences. When you expand your interests, you increase your opportunities for happiness.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Each of our souls has a deep urge to confess something about its nature. It sits still within us, until we come across a certain song, book, movie or person. Then everything changes, Our soul stirs like it was suddenly awoken from a brief sleep like child running to their mother excited about about a new discovery, words flowing out of their mouth tripping over each other. Its like the calm before the storm and the dancing of a hurricane’s first winds.”
― Ilwaad Isa

“After he had taught himself to be friendly, everything else became harder. He had to let go of his nerdy passions. He couldn't do both at once.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success

“You are what you watch”
― The Loft Cinema

“I suppose you'd have to say that my interest in the subject fell somewhere between the Land of Hobbies and the Kingdom of Obsession.”
― Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

“The more I travel, more I know that I know nothing.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“If you hibernate like a bear, entertain yourself with indoor hobbies, and wait for summertime T-shirt weather, you will probably avoid the serious effects of COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee

“My passion always runs ahead of my abilities. But in the process of keeping a close second, my abilities get a great workout.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My horse knows that when I’m grown,
we’ll ride the prairies all alone,
drivin� cattle ’cross dusty plains,
in the saddle, sun and rain.
I’ll never need the finest clothes
nor put my hair in pretty bows,
with cowgirl boots and cowgirl hat,
nothin� fancy’s where it’s at.

From "Cowgirl Dreams,”
― Suzy Davies, Celebrate The Seasons

“You have no hobby then?"
"Moths interest me, my lady.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“Isn’t it curious how in so many of our pastimes and hobbies we play at supplying one or another of our fundamentally creauturely needs—for food, shelter, even clothing?”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“With a few more days to hold on to, some of us are walking on a tight rope, ready to fall but we know not on which side we want to drown ourselves.
On one side there is freedom and the desire to be this carefree, a little irresponsible, a little selfish, a little too thrifty, with some mismanagement, two broken cellphones, one broken laptop, some lost valuables but a heart unbroken and recently found.
On the other side awaits luxury and responsibility amidst some smog, some corruption, some people dear to us, some love, some misunderstandings, some too-many-people suffocation, some fun, some reality you are willing to face, some reality you wish didn't exist.
You don't wanna go back but there is nothing much left here to be for.
You wanna go back but you know once you're back you're gonna miss this time, this place, this feeling terribly.
You're a nobody here yet everything in some memorable times,
You're somebody there holding on to not be a nobody.
I had been living in the moment but today my wallet hardly made a sound as it dropped on the floor.
"Nothing much left here to be for," it said.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Get hobbies Experiment
Be interested in various things But stay true to your values Realize though, as you grow
Those values may change and that is okay As long as you are following your heart And not what others want or expect Because then you are not being true to you.”
― Melody Lee, Vine: Book of Poetry

“At Crowley Control Systems in Southfield, the message we received from Clark Crowley, delivered in an amble around the office every month or so, was: Keep up the fine work folks! At General Dexterity in San Francisco, the message we received from Andrei, delivered in a quantitative business update every Tuesday and Thursday, was: We are on a mission to remake the conditions of human labor, so push harder, all of you.

I began to wonder if, in fact, I knew how to push hard. In Michigan, my family all had families and extremely serious hobbies. Here, the wraiths were stripped bare: human-shaped generators of CAD and code.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

“p2 I'd seen a photo of the actual red and white checked notebook that was Anne [Frank]'s first diary. I longed to own a similar notebook. Stationery was pretty dire back in the late fifties and early sixties. There was no such thing as Paperchase. I walked round and round the stationery counter in Woolworths and spent most of my pocket money on notebooks, but they weren't strong on variety. You could have shiny red sixpenny notebooks, lined inside, with strange maths details about rods and poles and perches on the back. (I never found out what they were!) Then you could have shiny blue sixpenny notebooks. That was your lot.
I was enchanted to read in Dodie Smith's novel I Capture The Castle that the heroine, Cassandra, was writing her diary in a similar sixpenny notebook. She eventually progressed to a shilling notebook. My Woolworths rarely stocked such expensive luxuries. Then, two thirds of the way through the book, Cassandra is given a two-guinea red leather manuscript book. I lusted after that fictional notebook for years.
I told my mother, Biddy. She rolled her eyes. It could have cost two hundred guineas - both were way out of our league... My dad, Harry, was a civil servant. One of the few perks of his job was that he had an unlimited illegal supply of notepads watermarked SO - Stationery Office. I'd drawn on these pads for years, I'd scribbled stories, I'd written letters. They were serviceable but unexciting: thin cream paper unreliably bound with glue at the top. You couldn't write a journal with these notepads; it would fall apart in days... My spelling wasn't too hot. It still isn't. Thank goodness for the spellcheck on my computer!”
― Jacqueline Wilson, My Secret Diary

“Self-image can be improved by gaining new hobbies and skills. The basis of this is: in order to love oneself, one must be someone worth loving. It is easy to feel upset about one’s body if one spends all their time watching Netflix or cruising Facebook. To feel good about oneself, one must improve themselves and take their focus and apply it to things outside themselves.”
― Zachariah Renfro, Aristotle's Wallet Large Print Edition: A Short Book on Applying Aristotle to Personal Finance

“We sometimes use a friend to prevent or stop ourselves from feeling abnormal (or crazy) for liking or enjoying something (or some of the things) that we like or enjoy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“It is painful to see someone do something we do with displeasure for pleasure.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
― Vogel on Dexter

“Praying is the purest form of pleasure.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you plan to make your hobby your work, make something else your hobby. You will still need hobbies.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor