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Rest & Relaxation

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.--Jay Michaelson (Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment)
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
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will no withdraw from us.--Maya Angelou
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)
In all things rest is sweet; there is surfeit even in honey, even in Aphrodite’s lovely flowers.--Pindar (Odes)
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)
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.--Seneca
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)
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.--Sir John Lubbock
Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world’s beauty and abundance.--Wendell Berry
Sunday. Take it slow and give your soul a chance to catch up with your body.--Unknown
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.--S. W. Duffield
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.—-Johann Caspar Lavater
There is nothing so soothing, nothing that gets you into the rhythm of life more readily than working in a garden, whatever its size and pruning.--Sarah Ban Breathnach (Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self)
To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.--Samuel Butler
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)
When practiced, Sabbath-keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.--Stephen W. Smith (Inside Job: Doing the Work Within the Work)
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.--George Macdonald