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| The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. ~ Sylvia Plath, |
| The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. ~ Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris |
| Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ~ Richard Carlson |
| Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~ Margaret Fuller |
| Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~ Ovid |
| For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~ Lily Tomlin |
| No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves. ~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
| Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~ Terri Guillemets |
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| Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~ Douglas Pagels, |
| The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. ~ Author Unknown |
| Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. ~ Joshua L. Liebman |
| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~ Will Rogers, |
| There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~ Bill Watterson, |
| There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~ Peter Drucker |
| One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ~ Bertrand Russell |
| Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~ Natalie Goldberg, |
| Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. ~ Pooh’s Little Instruction Book |
| Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. ~ Douglas Pagels, |
| Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply? ~ Carrie Latet |
| To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. ~ Milan Kundera |
| Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. ~ Susan Mitchell and Catherine Christie, |
| I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~ Jennifer Yane |
| There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~ H.L. Mencken |
| The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
~ William Henry Davies |
| A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~ Aesop, |
| Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~ John De Paola |