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

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

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

Colleen Wainwright

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

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

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

George Asaf

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Ovid

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

Satchel Paige

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides

Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Ruth Stout

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.

Dianne Hales

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

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Etty Hillesum

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Natalie Goldberg

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

This is our rest and relaxation.

Jim Crouch

Two birdies on the first and second hole, they gave me a bit of relaxation. After I finished the first nine I told myself, 'Just relax and do what you're supposed to do.' I kept myself focussed and that did it.

Mardan Mamat

There has to be a lot of relaxation (when performing 'OV'). If either of us is too tensed up or high strung, sometimes you can't make it through (the song) ... and it's a little bit more phonetic and faster live.

Josh Blair

It's become famous for its health benefits -- strength, flexibility, coordination, relaxation, stress reduction.

Tom Gohring

I made a good start with those two birdies (at one and two) and it gave me a bit more relaxation and focus.

Mardan Mamat

The immediate need of the industry is a relaxation of the cap on FDI from the present rate of 26 per cent to 49 or 74 per cent.

Vivek Mehra

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

Television is rather a frightening business. But I get all the relaxation I want from my collection of model soldiers.

Peter Cushing

I came home for a little rest and relaxation. You see your house. But these people lost everything. When you see it in person, it gets to you.

Janice Miller

It gives the starting rotation a sense of relaxation, because we know if we can just get through five or six, we have the guys every night to finish the game up for us. In the past, it hasn't necessarily been that way.

Jason Jennings

The upshot is that the relaxation in exchange control will make a big difference to local companies that have wanted to invest in Africa.

Loyiso Jiya

The United States hopes that it can use the four-power talks to bring about a relaxation of the military tensions in the Korean peninsula.

Selig Harrison

In their view, even leisure time had to be used to the full, so as to extract the maximum of entertainment and relaxation with the minimum of delay.

Michael Ende

It's released by the pituitary gland, and it's released by both sexes. The hormone helps induce relaxation and lower anxiety. The effects are enhanced more by female hormones and reduced by male hormones.

Doris Kilgore

And many of them haven't saved. But this isn't a crisis if we reinvent retirement. Most Boomers look at retirement as a new chapter in their lives, to be new people and try new things, rather than a phase of rest and relaxation.

Maddy Dychtwald

Do they want a beach vacation where relaxation is the only thing on the menu, do they want to explore new lands, do they want to do something adventurous?

Kathleen Murray

I start out with breathing techniques. Then we move on to easy movements followed by more advanced movements. I then end the class with the final relaxation which is like meditation.

Angie Pompa

The rise in ultraprivate luxury accommodation can be attributed to the increased need for relaxation and privacy.

Dr Kamal Hossain

Our goal is to collect as many donated books as possible for a designated delivery before Christmas. Our goal is 20,000 books, from picture books to adult relaxation.

Greg Wright

You come out of that with a feeling of relaxation and peace. That's very helpful.

Carmella Hilbert

This is not so much for relaxation. People from City Hall come here, and there always is someone to speak with. It's only a break in (terms of) the place, not in the work.

Sergio Chiamparino

The relaxation of the rules provides us with some hope.

Daniel Martin

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

George Matthew Adams

We hope that he will continue to come to Texas and seek the relaxation that he deserves.

Harry Whittington

Oh, just a bit more trust and belief and relaxation out here on TOUR. It's like there's obviously issues going on with myself, being a good player but never really getting it done.

John Senden

People love to step out on a deck and not see anyone or anything except a great view. Even if the only view is the vast sky, the feeling people get is expansion and relaxation.

Amanda Sturges

A lot of people feel that relaxation is an indulgence, particularly women, (but) taking time out to relax is really important.

Liz Tucker

Does Dallas what to double the number of frequencies out of this airport? That's, very simply, what you can count on with further relaxation or elimination of the Wright Amendment.

David Cush

Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Fed) recently said inflation is very good and so the Fed can afford to continue the powerful relaxation. The guarantee that the economy will avoid recession the second half of the year.

John Shepperd

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

This is very bad timing for the euro, and the report won't go down well with finance ministers or the European Commission, which is firmly against relaxation.

Julian Callow