Quotes About Rejuvenation

faction warfare erupted in Victoria. They do politics differently there. Wars are fought in the name of peace. Explosives are packed under the foundations of the Labor Party in the name of stability. They call the wreckage left after these brawls rejuvenation. The wonder is that Victoria delivers any Labor talent to Canberra and remains, decade after decade, a stronghold of the party.

We might at first label the body's simple need to focus inward depression. But as we practice going inward, we come to realize that much of it is not depression in the least; it is a cry for something else, often the physical body's simple need for rest, for contemplation, and for a kind of forgotten courage, one difficult to hear, demanding not a raise, but another life.

Sleep is exercise for the soul

You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.

Safe for now," Nat murmured. That had been another of the Shepherdess's dicta. Whenever you were safe, even if it was for a short time, it was important to give yourself a chance to exhale, to take nourishment and rest and live to fight again.

summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.

It's never too late to start again.

You cannot pour from an empty bottle so take care of yourself first.

Joy is the fountain of youth.

A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring.

NATURE: Where people go to recharge

When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.

Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it's OK to do nothing.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

A good cry is like a good rain.... Afterwards everything is washed clean, and for awhile, you can see for miles.

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

[H]e ran, he stopped—he dipped his glowing face into the cloud of blossoming bushes, and would fain lose himself in the humming world between the leaves; he pressed the scratched face into the deep, cooling grass, and hung delirious on the breast of the immortal mother of Spring.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

It's a luxury to slough the dust of the road off your skin, to soap up and stand beneath a spray of warm water, to watch it pool at your feet, grimy and brown, before it circles the drain and disappears forever.

Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature.

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.