Quotes About Relaxation

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

found that with less effort in meditation, I could relax into a quiet, aware state much more easily.

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it...

There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

Most of us are lucky to see Paris once in a lifetime. Make the most of it by doing as little as possible. Walk a little, get lost a bit, eat, catch a breakfast buzz, have a nap, try and have sex if you can, just not with a mime. Eat again. Lounge around drinking coffee. Maybe read a book. Drink some wine, walk around a bit more, eat, repeat. See? It's easy.

What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

inhale one count, hold four counts, exhale two counts. If you inhaled for four seconds, you would hold for sixteen and exhale for eight.

Permítame participarle la manera más eficaz de respirar para limpiar su sistema. Hay que mantener el ritmo siguiente: inspirar durante la cuenta de uno, retener durante la cuenta de cuatro, espirar durante la cuenta de dos. Es decir, si se toma aire durante cuatro segundos, se ha de contener el aliento durante dieciséis y exhalar el aire durante ocho.

When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?

She went up to her room, disembarrassed herself of her finery

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade

Let's have another bottle of 'cham,' said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. 'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

The leader – the initiator – of the ferocious protests against this mild relaxation of the Anti-Catholic laws was a curious individual even to his contemporaries. Lord George Gordon's unusual appearance – long red hair to his shoulders, and slightly protuberant blue eyes – added to the startling impression which he left upon observers, and inspired Horace Walpole to call him 'the lunatic apostle'.

in England after 1815 a general atmosphere of relaxation towards the Catholic community, even if it was for the time being unaccompanied by any positive legal results.

Then we would go to the living room and sit on the blue couches, and Cat Stevens would sing on the record player, "I have my freedom / I can make my own rules.

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.

the use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure;

Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

lounge-cum-dining-room

But for goodness sake, Frank— forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view.