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Quotes About Relaxation

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.
~ Sophie Hannah
I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that.
~ Barry Barish
I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.
~ Margo Martindale
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
~ Pam Brown
When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
~ Matthew McConaughey
When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm upset or not happy, but I'm just exhausted. I'm just zoned out.
~ Stephen Amell
Hey, I learned early the game of football is just that, a game, and you can't get too uptight. If things get too terrible, you can always go out and get another job somewheres else.
~ Cris Collinsworth
I'm quite relaxed - I know it's important not to get too uptight about things as a dancer, but when it came to my voice I realised that everything you eat, everything you drink affects it.
~ Francesca Hayward
You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.
~ Gilbert Arenas
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
~ John Gierach
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
~ Alice Walker
When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
~ Cyndi Lauper
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
~ Marc Newson
I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'
~ Josh Peck
My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
~ Pamela Anderson
On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.
~ Gustav Klimt
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
~ George MacDonald
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
~ Phillip Lopate
After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, "Oh my god, how girls get ready? This is hilarious, I love this, I'm forgetting about all my problems."
~ Lilly Singh
I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
~ Shakuntala Devi
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
~ Joyce Brothers