Quotes About Relaxation

The older I get, the more I just prefer to sleep.

How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

And I don't go out of the house if I can help it.

We slept as much as we wanted, made love twice a day, read and wrote letters and played cards.

Her chin was propped up on one of her hands. A gin fizz foamed in the other. "He's lovely," she said.

As she worked, her face was soft, her gaze blinkless, her body outwardly relaxed, nearly motionless. But inside her head there was a relentless noise, and to shut it out she started counting her records and then counting sheep. One sheep, two sheep. three sheep ... two hundred and fifty sheep think of nothing but sheep. Calm, she thought, calm.

Desperté seis horas después, con una formidable erección. El mejor afrodisíaco es descansar el cerebro.

eating chocolates, or lying in the sun; it was soothing, warming, totally pleasing.

And beautiful, and there the sea I found Calm as a cradled child in dreamless slumber bound.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

And that's it. I'm going back to bed.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

Those who are repetitively traumatized in childhood often learn to survive by over-using one or two of the 4F Reponses. Fixation in any one 4F response not only limits our ability to access all the others, but also severely impairs our ability to relax into an undefended state. Additionally, it strands us in a narrow, impoverished experience of life.

12. Time Urgency. I am not in danger. I do not need to rush. I will not hurry unless it is a true emergency. I am learning to enjoy doing my daily activities at a relaxed pace.

Inner peace enhances our ability to enjoy solitude, leisure, and the company of others. Our sleeping improves and dreaming becomes a time of fun and enrichment, rather than a restless and disturbed thrashing-about in symbolic reenactments of childhood trauma.

The time it takes to establish a sense of calm is time well spent.

Ellen Brody: Wanna get drunk and fool around? Brody: Oh Yeah.

American men are so embarrassed about napping," she said. "They think it is some sort of feminine indulgence. I detest a man who can't nap.

Swimming always cleans your soul

A man has to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink.

There are two types of people in this world; those that sing in the shower and those that read in the bath

My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. ? Peter Falk

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.