Relax Quotes - Page 21

• Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Simple, Your Side

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• As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discipline, Littles, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Heart, Men

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• The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

  Will Cuppy

  Tunnels, Land, World

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• Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Sports, Smart

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• I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

  China Machado

  Lying, Night, Naps

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• When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.

  Ben Affleck

  Names, Risk, Atmosphere

  "Ben Affleck, Screenwriter Chris Terrio and Producer Grant Heslov Talk ARGO, George Clooney’s Input on the Production, Challenging Scenes and Oscar Buzz". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

  Eddie Murphy

  Years, Careers, Relaxed

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Sep 23, 2013

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• Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Fall, Helping, Flight

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• As the Democrats get revved up at their convention in Boston, President Bush is fighting back the only way he knows how: by going on vacation! Ah, it's nice to take a rest, replenish your supply of smirks. The vacation was expected, because Bush traditionally takes a month off every summer to relax and avoid reading National Security Warnings.

  Craig Kilborn

  Summer, Nice, Reading

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• Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.

  John Ortberg

  Christian, Goal, Worry

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• My favorite part (of the game) is knowing that they're comfortable, knowing that, no matter
  what, they can count on me. What I really enjoy most about catching is the
  relationship with a pitcher. The most important thing is they can relax when I'm
  back there and know that I did my job, I did some homework on hitters.

  Jorge Posada

  Jobs, Games, Knowing

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• Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Fate

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

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• Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Despair, Steel, Care

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Long, Trying, Film

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• I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

  Morgan Freeman

  Book, Sleep, Vacation

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

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• I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Talking, Guy

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• One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

  Benjamin Britten

  One Day, Trying, Able

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• I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.

  Tom Cruise

  Father, Responsibility, Interesting

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• I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Powerful, Three, Lasts

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• So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Compassion, Effort, Bears

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (1995). “Hail Holy Queen!: An Explanation of the Salve Regina”, p.74, TAN Books

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• And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.

  Pope Gregory I

  Heart, Luxury, Joy

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• Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money.

  Sonia Faleiro

  Bars, Gangsters

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

  Pema Chodron

  Crazy, Teaching, Self

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

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• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  Magdalena Neuner

  Home, Knitting, Feelings

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