Quotes About Relaxation

Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.

Another force motivates us, and it is more primitive and more powerful than the urge to create: the force of entropy. This too is a survival mechanism built into our genes by evolution. It gives us pleasure when we are comfortable, when we relax, when we can get away with feeling good without expending energy.

The popular assumption is that no skills are involved in enjoying free time, and that anybody can do it. Yet the evidence suggests the opposite: free time is more difficult to enjoy than work.

Inhale deeply without forcing yourself. Exhale and feel that all the tension in your body is breathed out with your exhalation. • Inhale deeply without forcing yourself. Exhale and feel that your body becomes very relaxed.

Inhale deeply one more time without forcing yourself. Exhale and feel that your body and mind become very relaxed.

Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

summer is a time for popsicles

Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

When a comedy was on in our apartment, everything was better. Somehow, even the apartment smelled better.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

I drew my bath and scattered dried rose petals in the water. I stepped into the tub, pinned up my hair, dipped into the bowl of mayonnaise that had been mixed with fennel and rosemary and soaked secretly in the refrigerator for two days.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered

I want a guy who wants to curl up on a Friday night and watch Netflix. He can even pick the show. I mean, ideally, it's serialized and female-driven,

My guest to dinner was my best friend, Jocelyn, who had taken the train down from New York. We forewent seeing any DC museums or national monuments to order cheeseburgers and watch Will & Grace in bed at our hotel, because we are real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning.

Because a honeymoon is, after all, a sex vacation you're giving yourself after a massive party in your honor.

We forewent seeing any D.C. museums or national monuments to order cheeseburgers and watch "Will and Grace" in bed at our hotel, because we are real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning.

a honeymoon is, after all, a sex vacation you're giving yourself after a massive party in your honor.

which I would write on Sunday afternoons sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with no pants on.

We forewent seeing any DC museums or national monuments to order cheeseburgers and watch Will & Grace in bed at our hotel, because we are real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.