Resting And Relaxation Quotes

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

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Health, Inspire, Relaxation

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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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  The end of labor is to gain leisure.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

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

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Time

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

  Euripides

  Light, Relaxation, Earth

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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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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• I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Couple, Book

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• Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Mind

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1825). “Poems of William Cowper ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery ... Second edition”, p.240

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• Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

  Anatole France

  Work, Men, Labor Day

  The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard pt. 2, ch. 4 (1881)

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