Quotes About Rejuvenation

Sleep that day was a warm pool in which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.

We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.

The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born.

We need what I call "Grace Time," a term that is more descriptive and positive than "down time"—to revive, to recover our energy, to daydream, and to putter. Without it, we endanger our energy supply and court disaster in our health.

We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.

It will be good for them to get out of London and get some country air. All those people in London breathing the air in and out; just think of it, Emma. Just think of all that breathing going on in London—it's a wonder there's any air left for the rest of us.

But you can certainly take fifteen years off everything these days." She paused. "But you can't take height off a mountain.

It's amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee!

Of course, thirty would be nice again. I screwed that decade up and could really use a do-over.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Insulate yourself with friends and seek out wild places.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.

The need for sleep could be a terrible burden, but she was glad sleep existed. If it didn't, one would never get any real downtime. This way, no matter what happened the night before, you could wake up and feel like you had a new lease on life, a clean slate, that a chapter had ended and a new one had begun.

The company's stellar growth revived more than a few economic sectors, as well as a few neighborhoods.

The weekends here, started it right. Even if I only get part of it right.

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.