Quotes About Rejuvenation

I like to make sure I eat as soon as the drivers meeting is over. Then I like to take at least a 15-minute nap or so before the race starts, just to kind of get refreshed. That's something I try to do every time.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

I looked at my watch. Nine fifty-four. Time to go home and get your slippers on and play over a game of chess. Time for a tall cool drink and a long quiet pipe. Time to sit with your feet up and think of nothing. Time to start yawning over your magazine. Time to be a human being, a householder, a man with nothing to do but rest and suck in the night air and rebuild the brain for tomorrow.

I went down to the lobby and slipped the catch and then took a shower and put my pajamas on and lay down on the bed. I could have slept for a week. I dragged myself up off the bed again and set the catch on the door, which I had forgotten to do, and walked through a deep hard snowdrift out to the kitchenette and laid out glasses and a bottle of liqueur Scotch I had been saving for a really high-class seduction.

stayed there for a restorative year of catching my breath and looking around and not being desperate for time or money.

The words shot through Vivi's bones and blood and muscle, and her body relaxed, so that when her feet touched the ground they met the earth differently, as though they had found roots that reached deep down and anchored to something tender and undamaged.

Le lycée ne fut plus qu'un immense vaisseau bouillonnant de la joie furieuse de dix mille enfants qui venaient de retrouver leur jeunesse.

I took a little celebrational nap.

An idle, wandering mind is not the devil's playground, as the Puritans believed, but a garden of rejuvenation, growth, and contemplation.

Spending time in solitude with your artist child is essential to self-nurturing.

In me, find your refreshment. In me, find your ease. Rest in me and refresh yourself. Let your fatigue slip away. My resources are yours now. You are plentifully supplied.

Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.

This was a familiar feeling, for there were many places in the great forest where you could drink in its energy, become one with its ancient heart. When you were in trouble, you could find your way in these places.

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.