Top 685 Resting And Relaxation Quotes & Sayings

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

Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.

Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

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

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

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.

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

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.

I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.

I exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else.

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

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.

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

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

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

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

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

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

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.

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

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

I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.

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.

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.

I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.

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.

One day I’m going to find a way to rid you of that beast resting on your arm. (Artemis) (He looked at her over his shoulder.) And one day I’m going to find a way to rid myself of the beast resting on my back. (Acheron)

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.

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

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

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

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

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

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

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

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

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

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

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

Resting for me is fitness training.

Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.

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

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

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

I go out in Miami as a form of relaxation.

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

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.

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.

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

There must be relaxation in full extension.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.