Quotes About Rejuvenation

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

When branches are pruned, more of the life of the vine goes into producing the fruit. Without pruning, each year more and more of the sap of the vine goes into sustaining more and more branches and leaves, and each year the fruit is a bit smaller than it was last year. Just as God prunes our lives, removing those good things that bore fruit in the previous season of our lives so all of our energy can be poured into new areas of growth, God does the same thing in the church.

I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top.

I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slating silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees.

Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

take a long quiet walk straight into the canyons, get lost for a while, come back when you damn well feel like it

The pause that refreshes.

Life begins at retirement.

RISING.SUN detected: (A)nother coffee, (C)old shower, (S)leep?

To be a parent and take an occasional day off from being a parent is a special kind of joy—a lightening, a sweetness made sweeter by its impermanence.

Storms rinse the sky...

To be a parent and take an occasional day off from being a parent is a special kind of joy—a lightening, a sweetness made sweeter by its impermanence. We buy tickets, find our seats. The

The world was healing itself.

If I'm tired one day, then I'll take the day off instead of pushing through it, because then that's when you hurt yourself.

I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.

When the flowers start blooming, I like to ride my bike.

I used to be a pretty decent athlete when I was young. I would like to really focus on getting back into shape.