Quotes About Relaxation

It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.

Mirren took off her shoes and the rest of us followed. We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

With his head on the fender and all his limbs relaxed, he felt almost as safe as he felt once when his mother killed a ghost in the passage by carrying him through it in her arms. There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendors and horrors of the world.

This was 'oliday, London with Maurice, all troubles over, and he wanted to drowse and waste time, and tease and make love.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.

Even if (musical) talent is "just" used within a family, someone is appreciating what is being produced, or is sharing in the enjoyment.... for relaxation; for just plain fun and sharing: for the experience of doing something creative together.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Something about a river trip always seems to promote the consumption of potable drugs.

Simply breathing, in a place like this, arouses the appetite.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

We hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

The pause that refreshes.

Let the train take the strain.

It's Miller time.

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.

It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great cost, to those in easier circumstances.