Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames andor computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.
I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.
Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.
Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.