Quotes and Sayings About Relaxation
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...
-- Abraham Polonsky -
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
-- Al Alvarez -
You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
-- Alan Cohen -
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Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.
-- Albert E Cliffe -
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.
-- Albert Wohlstetter -
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
-- Alexander BorodinSource : Letter to V. A. Krylov, 1867.
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As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.
-- Alexander Borodin -
The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.
-- Alexander SiddigSource : "Alexander Siddig — Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.
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I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
-- Alfred Kastler -
I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.
-- Ali LarterSource : "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009.
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Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
-- Andrew Sharp -
Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.
-- Anodea Judith -
The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
-- Armand HammerSource : 1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.
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That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
-- Arne JacobsenSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.
-- Arno Hintjens -
Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
-- Barbara Taylor Bradford -
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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 -
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People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
-- Bill Murray -
Breath is critical to everything, to our relaxation, to our flexibility, to our mobility, to our strength and to our power. Knowing how to use our breath and tapping into this breath strength is critical for success as strength athletes.
-- Brett Jones -
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
-- Carl Jung -
Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.
-- Claude Monet -
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I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.
-- Claude Monet -
July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.
-- Colin Chapman -
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.
-- Dagobert D. Runes -
For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.
-- Dalai Lama -
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A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.
-- Desmond MorrisSource : Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
-- Dogen