Quotes About Rejuvenation

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

Sleep helps you win at life.

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.

On Sleep's soft lap the head without a crown Forgot the gilded trouble it had worn

Whatever you do, please don't think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

When I'm exhausted, I need sleep. Even when I seem totally wide awake. A regular schedule and a calm routine before bed are important to me. Otherwise, I will lie awake in bed all stirred up for hours. I need a lot of time in bed, even if I'm lying awake. I may need it in the middle of the day, too. Please let me have it.

hours with their eyes closed without worrying if they are actually sleeping. Since 80 percent of sensory stimulation comes in through the eyes, just resting with your eyes closed gives you quite a break.

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

He had combed his hair in a way that revealed his broad forehead, framed by thick hair and eyebrows. His face had become thinner, and the prominent lines of the nose, the mouth, the cheekbones formed a design more pleasing than I remembered. He looked ten years younger, the heaviness of his hips, of his chest, of his stomach had disappeared, he even seemed taller.

These two threads that run through our life—one pulling us into the world to achieve and make things happen, the other pulling us back from the world to nourish and replenish ourselves—can seem at odds, but in fact they reinforce each other.

Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep

one of the least discussed benefits (or miracles, really) of sleep: the way it allows us, once we return from our night's journey, to see the world anew, with fresh eyes and a reinvigorated spirit, to step out of time and come back to our lives restored.

meditation "a reboot for your brain and your soul.

Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.

Always keep in mind that training stimulates growth, but that actual growth takes place while you are resting.