Evangeline Lilly Quotes

If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, 'hang on a minute, I'm obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.'

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

After I've knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what's awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

I make jewelry occasionally. I'm not a hobbyist. I'm a reader, I'm a lover of books, I like to watch movies, but mostly a lot of nothing. I'm quite content doing very little.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

I don't use many apps. I use naps.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.