Top 294 Relaxation Quotes & Sayings

I exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else.

Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It is a state of non-doing. You simply relax and you enjoy the feeling of relaxation. Relax into yourself, just close your eyes, and listen to all that is happening all around. No need to feel anything as distraction. The moment you feel it is a distraction, you are denying God. This moment God has come to you as a bird. Don't deny.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

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.

Walking is central to my relaxation because when I'm writing I'm stationary for seven hours at a time.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Well, I take my drums everywhere I go so I can play them for relaxation.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

Yoga is active relaxation, which allows us to develop presence and take responsibility for the way we feel.

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation. I have come across one book - the name of the book is YOU MUST RELAX! Now that very word 'must' is enough to keep you tense. Relaxation cannot be a "must," it cannot be an effort.

Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the ways of relaxation.

Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use technology to relax and improve performance. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red.

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

There must be relaxation in full extension.

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

I go out in Miami as a form of relaxation.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

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

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

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

I don't want to see a weakening of guns laws or the relaxation of vaccinations.

I wish I could spend more time in Africa. I have this intense sense of complete relaxation and normality here.

Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.

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

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

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

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

I do not have much time for relaxation, but when I can, I like to read.

Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.