212 Quotes About Relaxation

To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

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

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

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

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.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

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