 | "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
- Anatole France
, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. |
| "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. |
| "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
. |
| "Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax."
- Dianne Hales
. |
| "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
. |
| "There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
. |
| "Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest."
- Euripides
, Alcestis, 438 B.C. |
| "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. |
| "He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
- Henry David Thoreau
, Journal, February 11, 1840. |
| "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. |