Quotes About Rejuvenation

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them

Like Grandmère says, every woman needs at least eight hours of sleep a night so that she can wake refreshed upon the morning to battle the new day.

Today, I will practice loving self-care.

Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.

You are being renewed in the spirit of your minds. Ephesians 4:23

There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.

How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

I had a great time at Roma, but Milan have made me feel like a young boy again. When I signed for them I was as excited as I was when I signed my first ever contract.

When that holiday party or happy hour comes along, shut her on down. Turn off the Blackberry, put your phone on silent, and go get 'em at the party. After all, you're about the only one who's earned it.

Innocence revived is the freshening rain of life on dead and wintered fields.

The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

To write again felt like a return to myself.

ate under the cool of the pine trees.

When the rain stops, the air is suddenly sweetened. The trees and the shrubs and the weeds have dispensed fragrance into the air. Hundreds of long brown earthworms are crawling out of the softened ground. Bombay will open its windows and the rain-sweetened air will come in and Bombay will sleep well tonight. And if the first rain is early, you will sleep especially well tonight, because you still have fifteen days left till the beginning of school.

When all else fails, take a bath.

some quality time with a good book. Trying to

Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. —Isak Dinesen

The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the salt sea. —Isak Dinesen

My chess rivals were taking lessons, competing at every weekend tournament, while I was on a boat crashing through big waves. But I would come back with new ideas and a full tank of energy and determination. The ocean has always healed me…