Quotes About Relaxation

Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.

The repetition of weaving the yarn around a needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting.

People who say they don't have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!" —Sally Melville

knitters use both hands

The only thing that equals my joy in knitting is the pleasure of reading!

will you teach me how to knit?

If more people knitted and crocheted, the world would see fewer wars and a whole lot less road rage.

She drew in a breath of salty sea air and let it out, mentally disconnecting with life on land even as the boat whisked her away from it. Just for today, she'd leave her worries behind and surrender to the wind's wiles.

I loved getting up before everyone else, when the house was still and I could read or listen to a podcast alone in a frozen world. I knew where everyone was. I knew they were safe. I could relax.

I never can understand why most people imagine a bed – some sort of bed: any sort of bed – to be a prerequisite of sleep.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink, For fellows whom it hurts to think.

I can fall asleep anywhere.

I easily fall asleep during a movie.

I love being home. I play with my dogs.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

I need some downtime before I go to sleep.

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

Dr. Dog is good summer music.

I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person.

I'm not dressed up all the time.

I go to bed at 9:30 P.M. and I like to watch TV as I drift off.

I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

Long drives are stress-busters for me.