Quotes About Relaxation

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

I sleep poorly, but I nap rich

Saturdays in Sag Harbor, I liked to lie in bed listening to the weekend rev itself up.

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

I had tea. I then spent a long time in a bookshop. A quiet evening.

I can't imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—

All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs.

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In this very special self-hypnotic state there can be no question of getting out of touch with on[e]self and floating into a normal sleep (unless you are very tired at the start)

Martin was one of those people for whom a good book before sleep is something to look forward to all day. Such a person, upon happening to recall, amidst routine occupations, that on his bedside table a book is waiting for him, in perfect safety, feels a surge of inexpressible happiness.

Relaxation produces smooth strokes and results from accepting your strokes as they are, even if erratic.

When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

If you're severely overstressed or fatigued, the best thing to do is get off the highway, stop for dinner, a stroll or a nap.

Change how you breathe to change how you feel. Specifically, "belly breathing," or taking deep, diaphragmatic breaths that cause your belly to rise and fall, has an immediate soothing effect on your nervous system.

but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.

Sometimes the breath is very fine, like silk or satin; it enters and exits freely. How wonderful just to be breathing! At other times it is coarse, more like burlap; it fights its way in and out. Sometimes the breath is so deep and smooth that it affects the whole body, relaxing us profoundly. Other times it's so short and pinched, hurried and agitated, that our minds and bodies are like that, restless and uncomfortable.

I turned to books for comfort.

If ever a night called for Ben & Jerry's, it was tonight. For

I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do." "That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

SOME PEOPLE PANIC AT DECEMBER'S DARKNESS, DESPAIRING to see the sun go down before they leave work. But Tess had always found comfort in the shorter days. The winter months gave her permission to relax. It was pleasant, cozy even, to sit in her office and feel the shadows encroach around her and her computer screen. On this particular afternoon, the ebbing light was at least a sign of progress. The