Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation."
Vacation quotes
Vacation
514 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting."
Betty Williams
Author
"When all else fails, take a vacation."
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"Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes."
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"Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one."
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"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking."
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"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
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"I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want"
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"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change"
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"Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled."
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"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
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"Understanding how to find the magic moments in your daily life is critical. If you subscribe to the philosophy that says, "My vacation will free me from burnout," then you`re waiting for a few days out of the year to make up for many days of stress. Instead, you have to be able to take mini-vacations on a daily basis."
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"Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger."
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"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
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"Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you."
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"That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you."
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"Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony."
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"Once a year go someplace you've never been."
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"Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation."
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"Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for."
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"I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage."
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"I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary."
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"I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination."
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