Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Rest & Relaxation

Rest & Relaxation

All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
We only toil, who are the first of things.--Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("Chiroc Song" The Lotos-Eaters)
Busy work brings after ease;
Ease brings sport and sport brings rest;
For young and old, of all degrees,
The mingled lot is best.--Joanna Baillie
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
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.--Lily Tomlin
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.--Benjamin Franklin
If you rest, you rust.--Helen Hayes (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow
The faucets leak, and learn to leave them so.--Marya Mannes ("Controverse" But Will It Sell?)
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.--Indra Devi
Man needs a day of rest from the cares, toils, and trials of the six days of work in the material realm. He needs to reflect, meditate, contemplate, and to turn his eyes inward, as it were, rather than outwards.--Anonymous (The Lookout)
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.--Henry David Thoreau
One cannot rest except after steady practice.--George Ade (Forty Modern Fables)
Our minds need relaxation and give way
Unless we mix with work a little play.--Molier (The School for Husbands)
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.--Henry Adams (Education)
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.--Margaret Mead and Rhonda Metraux
When everyone is too busy, don't expect a more productive society. Expect a frantic society. --Jeff Davidson (Breathing Space: Living & Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up Society)
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.--George Macdonald