Quotes About Relaxation

If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

After the week she'd had, she wanted to go to the cafe and sink into a couch, gossip and laugh and sketch and drink tea and make up for lost normal.

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

What have you been doing to yourself, Belinda? Girl, you've got more knots in your shoulders than are listed in the Boy Scout handbook.

Lie on your back and close your eyes. Let me chase your fear away.

As we eyed them over our hot cocoa, we all immediately, without discussing it, started talking a bit more loudly about where we were going for lunch. Yeah, we can be kind of immature when we want to be.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

We talked of mice, the cat and I, and of the importance of napping.

I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the cinema with the sole aim of having their mind expanded – entertainment is a fine raison d'etre for films so why not books?

Boredom is that agitated space between relaxation and action; dialed down, it can become a pleasant kind of inertia or a meditative stillness, where it feels good to sit quietly with your own thoughts; cranked up a notch, it can produce creative release. But that middle place is the boredom itself – restlessness with no movement. A dull and desperate longing for something else. From Catastrophic Happiness.

Reading a good book can be like being on vacation!

Vacations often go to fast! Enjoy every minute!

Retirement, a time to enjoy life! A time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, how you want to do it.

August briefly tried that on for size. Wondered if he longed for summer because summer made it so much easier to breathe.

Esta bien," Clara called back. They sat in silence a while longer. "You seem pretty relaxed," she said to Billy. "Pretty

don't you dare judge me, it was four in the afternoon, and all cats know four in the afternoon is Twelfthnap, right after Teanap.

Their happiness was the kind which is fashioned of the comfortable disorder of sauvignon bottles and coffee cups in the sink, paperback thrillers with split spines on the nightstand, bathrobes hung haphazard on high-backed, brocade-seated chairs, shutters left open all night, and the hallway ever in need of new paint.

They ate and picked sand from their chicken in the pink light.

My bed was calling me, so I turned off my mobile, switched on the answering machine and climbed under the duvet for a few hours of divine uninterrupted sleep.

A garden is the best alternative therapy

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.