Quotes About Rejuvenation

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

I like to swim a few times a week. It's relaxing, and no one can call, email, or text me while I'm in the pool.

I love indulging myself once in a while with a good aroma or Thai body massage followed by sauna and jacuzzi.

I started my first day in Thailand as I intended to go on, with a massage. I had heard that Thai massage was the best you can have, and I certainly wasn't disappointed.

The first thing I do when I get home is take my shoes off and go barefoot.

I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

I know the one thing that will reset my button is getting up and running a fast mile.

I love sleep so much. That's the one thing I won't sacrifice. I really cannot.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

Whenever I'm in a bad place, I take a little trip in my head.

Well, fresh air's supposedly good for us,' I said. 'Breathing: The miracle cure everyone's been looking for.

There aren't enough days in the weekend.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

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

And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

The pristine vision of childhood restores freshness to even the most time-worn scenes, and in Laura's company I recovered some of the delights I had experienced years ago when my son was a little boy.

Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her. The pleasure of being on one's own was not so much spiritual as sensuous, like wearing silk, or swimming without a bathing suit, or walking along a totally empty beach with the sun on your back. One was restored by solitude. Refreshed.

The cold sap was a spring tonic. When you drank it, you shared the genius of the woods.

Swimming is my salvation. Ask me in the middle of winter, or at the end of a grueling day, or after a long stretch at the computer, where I'd most like to be, and the answer is always the same: in the water, gliding weightless, slicing a silent trail through whatever patch of blue I can find.

For the woman who swelters in her kitchen or lolls in a drawing room, for the man who sits half his life in an office chair, an occasional swim does as much good as six months' vacation. That weary feeling goes away for once in the cool, quiet water. Tired men and tired women forget that stocks and cakes have fallen.

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

so often I need OUT; something will throw me into total disproportion, and I have to get away from everybody—away from all these people I love most in the world—in order to regain a sense of proportion.