Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
Satchel Paige
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau Journal, February 11, 1840
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What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.
George Asaf O Magazine, October 2002
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During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra physicist
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quoted in O Magazine, October 2002
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We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
Etty Hillesum O Magazine, October 2002
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No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.
Dianne Hales
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Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Colleen Wainwright Communicatrix, 08-06-08
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin O Magazine, October 2002
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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 The Histories of Herodotus
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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll O Magazine, October 2002
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Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
Ruth Stout
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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer "Calculating God", 2000
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid
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Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.
Oprah Winfrey O Magazine, October 2002
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang O Magazine, October 2002
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If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse O Magazine, October 2002
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
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Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
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Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
Catherine de Hueck Doherty O Magazine, October 2002
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This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Captain J. A. Hadfield
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Bertrand Russell Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Natalie Goldberg O Magazine, October 2002
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Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
Walter Hagen American Quotations
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Just one word more -- please steal time every day, if you cannot find it in any other way, to lie on the grass, or in a hammock, under a huge tree this lovely month... and relax. What a tonic this is for the soul! What a rest for weary nerves! Our husbands, children, friends -- yes, and the nation -- will profit by our relaxation. The greatest need today is for calmer homes, and no fireside can be calm unless its guardian is at peace with the world.
Nell B. Nichols Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
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He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet hours.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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I pray you... Your play needs no excuse. Never excuse.
William Shakespeare Simple Abundance
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Whether you are concerned about managing your work or your personal life or your leisure, success and satisfaction will depend on your inner thoughts. Your inner thoughts will help to determine your outer life... and your inner life will affect how you react to your experiences...
Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD Managing Your Mind
Categories: success relaxation balance thoughts self-control

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
Benjamin Franklin Jump Start Your Brain
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So you see, imagination needs noodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland The Artist's Way
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Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber Simple Abundance
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Charles Darwin The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Anxiety breaks a man's backbone.
Hebrew proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have--leisure and a quiet mind.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman Deep Play
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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes 5:12
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Instead of frittering away your vibrancy with worry or distraction, realize your mind and body are inextricably united. What calms and tones up one, soothes and improves the other.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life meaning fulfillment purpose spirituality happiness joy relaxation leisure living busyness smell the roses rest

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri The Book of Positive Quotations
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