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Quotes About Relaxation

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
~ William Cowper
Fatigue is the best pillow.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
~ Anonymous
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
~ Dodie Smith
Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.
~ Julia Louise Woodruff
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
~ Jules Renard
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
~ William Shakespeare
Sleep faster, we need the pillows.
~ Jewish proverb
Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long.
~ Burt Reynolds
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."
~ Dorothea Kent
Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
~ Walter Hagen
Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.
~ James L. Muresell
Three glasses of wine can set everything to rights.
~ Chinese proverb
If at first you don't succeed, have a beer.
~ The New Yorker, 1991
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
~ Zen Saying
Keep calm and acupuncture on.
~ Internet meme
You will be freed from the labour of worry.
~ Israel Dr Regardie
Our sense of humor is a gift from God that should be controlled as well as cultivated. Clean, wholesome humor will relax tension and relieve difficult situations. Leaders can use it to displace tension with a sense of normal.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
Happiness is not something that you feel when good things happen in your life. It is not something you feel when people say good things about you. It is not something you feel when you win an award. It is a state of living – present in grief or celebration, success or failure, stress or relaxation, suffering or pleasure.
~ J. Thomas
For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and for her, she realized. He could open little pockets of peace.
~ J.D. Robb
Some people relax better without the confines of clothes," Peabody said, then flushed when Eve cast a considering glance over her shoulder. "I've heard.
~ J.D. Robb
confrontation while lounging in bed.
~ J.D. Robb
brandy to sleep at night.
~ J.D. Robb