Relaxation quotes
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"Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind."
"Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body."
"Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need."
"Rest is the sweet sauce of labor."
"In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation."
"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."
"It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage."
"When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation."
"You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting."
"Work. Don't Think. Relax."
"If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality."
"The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest."
"Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest."
"I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea."
"Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax."
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level."
"You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that."
"There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."
"For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help."
"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."
