Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arne Jacobsen

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.

William Shakespeare

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

Dogen

To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.

Robert Bly

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

Tony Ross

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

Simone Elkeles

Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.

Rollo May

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Rajneesh

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

Rajneesh

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

Rajneesh

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

Rajneesh

If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is a more complex phenomenon. Once you have become confident that the body listens to you, you will have a new trust in yourself. Now even the mind can listen to you. It will take a little longer with the mind, but it happens.

Rajneesh

You will have to relax from the circumference. The first step in relaxing is the body. Remember as many times as possible to look in the body, whether you are carrying some tension in the body somewhere - at the neck, in the head, in the legs. Relax it consciously. Just go to that part of the body, and persuade that part, say to it lovingly "Relax!"

Rajneesh

Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

Oscar Wilde

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

Federico Fellini

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

George Bernard Shaw

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.

Henry David Thoreau

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Henry David Thoreau

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

Henry David Thoreau

Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

Glen Hansard

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Gustav Klimt

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

Ian Fleming

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

Kathleen Turner

You know, when you've worked with somebody before and you've worked very deeply and dangerously then you start with the relaxation and the trust right away and that lets you go even deeper, which is a lovely thing.

Natalia Makarova

Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

Pablo Picasso

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Alexander Siddig

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.

Alan Cohen

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

Kevin Whately

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.

Edward Carey

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

Dag Hammarskjold

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

Claude Monet

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.

Peter Sellers

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)