Quotes About Relaxation

Only the British could experience great pain at the thought of a traffic jam - a place where you can sit alone with your radio on without being expected to do any work. Aren't traffic jams unbearable? By the time you get home, you need to sit alone in a comfy chair with your favourite music on just to calm down.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.

Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer?

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to notice both what was happening around me and what was happening as my internal response. [p.50]

Life is easier without imperatives.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

It was as easy for him to quit Bloomsbury for the Chilterns as for a cat to jump from a hard chair to a soft. Now after a little scrabbling and exploration he was curled up in the green lap and purring over the landscape.

The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!

Retirement: World's longest coffee break.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

I told people I was taking a gap year, but the truth was that I wanted to do nothing, absolutely nothing, for as long as possible, maybe for the rest of my life.

Sun melting over it, slow as butter on toast.

He'd forgotten what it felt like to surrender to the comfort of tranquility.