Quotes About Relaxation

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We] were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing--half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

The more he tries to stop it, the faster it goes. When he lets his hands and face move like they want to and doesn't try to hold them back, they flow and gesture in a way that's real pretty to watch, but when he worries about them and tries to hold back he becomes a wild, jerky puppet doing a high-strung dance. Everything is moving faster and faster, and his voice is speeding up to match.

swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing-half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could

We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing—half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

Don't stand up when you can sit down and don't sit down when you can lie down.

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

The brain is evolutionarily hard-wired to do its best daydreaming only when it senses that it is safe to do so—when, in short, it is relaxed. In Kounios's words, "The relaxation phase is crucial.5 That's why so many insights happen during warm showers." Or during Sunday afternoon walks on Glasgow Green, when the idea of a separate condenser seems to have excited the aSTG in the skull of James Watt. Eureka indeed.

Breastfeeding helps you unwind from a busy day's work and reconnect with your baby, especially after a tense day.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.

Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,And we must sleep.

I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.

The innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care...

Some come to take their easeAnd sleep an act or two.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering.

Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.