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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, May, Return

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• It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Peace, Powerful

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• Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Two, World, Time Management

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  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• 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

  Civilization, People, Levels

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

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• 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.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Matter, Way

  "Succeeding Sane: Making Room for Joy in a Crazy World". Book by Bonnie St. John Deane (p. 122), 1998.

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

  George Matthew Adams

  Inspirational, Running, Fear

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• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Distance, Taken

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Peace, Men, Form

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.2339, e-artnow

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• 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

  Life, Time, Health

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

  Euripides

  Light, Earth, Express Yourself

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• 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.

  Simone Elkeles

  Ease, Body, Helping

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Work. Don't Think. Relax.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Relax

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• Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the ways of relaxation.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Flow

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• During 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

  Truth, Knowledge, Giving

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

  Gustav Klimt

  Doe, World

  Gustav Klimt, Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina (2016). “Gustav Klimt Artworks”, p.56, Book and Magazine

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

  Anatole France

  Work, Men, Labor Day

  The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard pt. 2, ch. 4 (1881)

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• I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

  Claude Monet

  Sea, Able, Exhausted

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Moving, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cities, Get Better, Greater

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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