"I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours."
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"One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed."
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"I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation."
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"Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy."
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"One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I refused to belong to - the species, Western capital culture - was a little more respectable. My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off."
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"He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present."
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"I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest."
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"People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different."
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"And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets."
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"There must be relaxation in full extension."
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"The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe."
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"He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation."
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"It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book."
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"Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart."
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"Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about."
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"They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation."
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"He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures."
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"Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times."
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"Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation."
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"For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space."
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