Resting And Relaxation Quotes

• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Health, Inspire, Relaxation

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• There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

  Alan Cohen

  Relax, Taking A Break, Use

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Fitness, Relaxation, Massage

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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

  Donald Curtis

  Life, Letting Go, Mean

  Donald Curtis (1961). “Your thoughts can change your life”

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• Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Fitness, Patience, House

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• Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Health

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• It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Decision, Relaxation

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, May

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  If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

  Herodotus

  Fun, Men, Knowing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.

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• I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fitness, Health, Order

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.752, Simon and Schuster

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  The end of labor is to gain leisure.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

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• He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cities, Relaxation, Get Better

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

  Walter Kirn

  Breathing, Luxury, Relaxation

  Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.10, Anchor

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• Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

  Etty Hillesum

  Appreciation, Prayer, Stress

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Peace, Powerful

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• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Distance, Taken

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• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

  Euripides

  Light, Relaxation, Earth

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

  Plutarch

  Fitness, Sweet, Relaxation

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• My yoke is easy, and my burden light.

  Saint Boniface

  Bible, Jesus, Weary Heart

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• It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

  Stirling Moss

  Relaxation, Brain, Muscles

  1955 In Newsweek,16 May.

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• I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

  Claude Monet

  Sea, Relaxation, Able

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Time, Health

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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