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Quotes About Relaxation

Maybe when I come home at night I want comfort and the smell of coffee and to feel safe. For the first time, I understood something about Dornan before he did.
~ Nicola Griffith
And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
~ Nicolas Cage
Booze and puppies," said Sara under her breath to me. "The best social lubricants in North America.
~ Unknown
and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
~ Nikolai Gogol
A adormit bu?tean, cum dorm numai acei ferici?i care nu sufer? nici de hemoroizi, nici de purici ?i nici de vreo agerime prea mare a min?ii.
~ Nikolai Gogol
For the rest, he was large and good-natured, and had a habit of amusing himself with occasional spells of knitting.
~ Nikolai Gogol
With our busy lives, for most of us, relaxation is not a priority. When to do nothing." I ask people in yoga classes what they do to relax, a common answer is our —J. B. Priestley contemporary types of "relaxation"—watching TV, competitive and spectator sports events, walking, reading, and so on.
~ Unknown
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
~ Nora Roberts
I love slow music.
~ Norah Jones
Mr. Ankerson, however, was well provided for already. He had ordered a bottle of whisky for himself and was quietly enjoying a one-man orgy in the corner.
~ Unknown
ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
~ Norman Cousins
Reduce the effort whenever possible. The use of force is the opposite of awareness; learning does not take place when we are straining. The principle should not be no pain, no gain. Rather, it should be if strain, no gain. Feldenkrais thought the use of willpower (of which he obviously had plenty) was not helpful in developing awareness.
~ Norman Doidge
Thus he might start working on a part of the body farthest from where the pupil thought the problem was, often on the opposite side. He might begin to gently move a toe, far from a painful upper body part. If he felt a restriction, he would never force it. What he discovered was that the brain would sense this relaxation in the toe, and the person would become immersed in that image of relaxed movement, which would soon generalize, so that that entire side of the body relaxed.
~ Norman Doidge
Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in control? We don't! There's no need to figure everything out. We can just be alive. We can breathe in and breathe out and let go and just trust our life, trust our body. Our body and our life know what to do. The problem is to let them do it, to relax and let them guide us.
~ Unknown
You get some rest. We'll talk later." "I'd rather not," I said nicely. "Rest is important," he insisted.
~ Obert Skye
Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know
~ Octavia E. Butler
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You have had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You are sunk from a riot of relaxation.
~ Ogden Nash
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
~ Ogden Nash
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
~ Ogden Nash
I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
She had such a deep tan that she looked as if she'd just been removed from the barbecue.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~ Unknown