Quotes About Relaxation

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

We're content to knock around the house.

The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

I go to the Korean spa when the kids go to bed. It's like I turn my brain off.

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.

When I'm in labor, I like it to be very 'namaste.' I can't take care of other people at that time.

Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?

I turned over, and those big hands got to work on my back. I stifled a whimper in the pillow, because Marco's idea of a massage bore no resemblance whatsoever to the relaxing spa variety. There was no lavender oil, no soothing music, no hot towels. Just an all-out assault on cramped muscles, until they cowered in surrender and turned to Jell-O.

Imagine lying on ice and not being cold. We are all in corpse pose on the mats. What she really said was imagine a place of safety and peace.

I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.

No, no, no, no physics over breakfast!

He dropped into an armchair near the fireplace and patted his thigh. "Bring your bonny self over here, wee English.

Better days are coming! They're called Saturday and Sunday.

I need a time out. Send me to the beach and don't let me come back until my attitude changes.

But mostly it's because my head's too full. So I have to keep thinking until it's empty, and then I can go to sleep.

No vacation goes unpunished.

Tip 1: If you are having trouble discussing something, get out of the house.

The appropriate demeanor for a human is to feel lucky that he is alive and to humble himself in the face of the immensity of things and have a beer. Relax. Welcome to Earth. It's a little confusing at first. That's why you have to come back over and over again before you learn to really enjoy yourself. The sky is not falling.

Either that," she continued as if I hadn't said a word, "or we take advantage of the two-for-one irrigation special at the green spa. My treat!" She turned to Derek and confided, "I always say, an impacted colon is one bummed-out pooper shooter." Then she turned back to me. "Whaddaya say, hmm?

What's wrong with just talking? Isn't that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?

Pretend to relax

really being able to relax means you can be comfortable doing nothing at all.

In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.