Quotes About Rejuvenation

I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours.

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.

I work hard to get the body right, and then I kind of just go off the map when on vacation.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you're like, 'What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?'

When a child enters your life, it is time to learn. It is not time to teach. Most people think it is time to teach; that is the misfortune. If a child enters your life, it is time to relearn the life that you have forgotten. That a child can laugh without reason, that he can jump around for no reason, that he can become an exuberant burst of aliveness – that's life.

This country makes a man younger than his birthdays.

Every day, give yourself a good mental shampoo.

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

I'm just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it's not that I'm not taking applications.

I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o'clock in the morning.