Relaxation Quotes - Page 12

• The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

  Khalil Gibran

  People, Solitude, Sorrow

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

  Al Alvarez

  Depression, Disappointment, Layers

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• Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  Fear, Thinking, Needs

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• The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

  Billie Jean King

  Attitude, Numbers, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Jun 05, 2010

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• Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, Mind, Orthodoxy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Moving, Mean

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• Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Work, Political, Trying

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• I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Education, Sex

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• A jug fills drop by drop.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity.

  Seth

  Letting Go, Art, Creativity

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• The key aspect to meditating is that you close your eyes and engage in thoughts that are positive, uplifting, and create feelings of physical and emotional relaxation.

  Tim McCarthy

  Uplifting, Eye, Emotional

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• Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.

  Jane Seymour

  Golf, Swings, Focus

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• One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I refused to belong to - the species, Western capital culture - was a little more respectable. My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off.

  George Carlin

  Interesting, Wish, Tanks

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation.

  Tim McCarthy

  Eye, Meditation, Feelings

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• I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Army

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• And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard-one that thinks too much.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Confused, Thinking, Awkward

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• Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

  Edward Bellamy

  Maturity, Flags, Ease

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.41, Applewood Books

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• I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

  Ali Larter

  Reading, Weekend, Cooks

  "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009.

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• It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sports, Real, Opportunity

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• When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.

  Jonathan Groff

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Drug, Challenges

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• Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

  Natalia Makarova

  Body, Profession, Physicality

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• There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

  James Carroll

  Other Worlds, Breeze, Time To Relax

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• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Fighting, World

  1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

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• The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

  Solomon

  Sweet, Sleep, Men

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