Relaxation Quotes - Page 15

• A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Stars, Fall, Missing

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• It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

  Edmund Burke

  Real, Heart, Character

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3681, Delphi Classics

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• At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Senior, School, Boys

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.243, OUP Oxford

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• Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

  Horace Greeley

  Sports, Mean, Eye

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• Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

  Tryon Edwards

  Holiday, Events, Employment

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• A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.

  Desmond Morris

  Friendship, People, Alertness

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Logical, Fascism, Worst

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• Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Men, Mad

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• I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Archer, Thinking, Arrows

  "Best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

  Geneen Roth

  Kindness, Fighting, Acceptance

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jan 15, 2012

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

  Tony Ross

  Bars, Restaurants, Meetings

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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

  Federico Fellini

  Way, Enthusiasm, Loses

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• The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

  Kevin Kline

  Mind, Technique, Centeredness

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• You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Mean, Night, Energy

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• When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

  Vimala Thakar

  Knowing Who You Are, Quality, Nerves

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• Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

  Orville Dewey

  Sleep, Men, Morality

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• Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure. Instead, we cling to our To Do lists and sacrifice our health and well-being for the sake of others. Then, when we feel deprived of our basic human need for relaxation and enjoyment, we turn to food as our sole source of pleasure. When we then try to deprive ourselves of food through dieting, we deny the last bit of pleasure we have in our lives. And that strategy never works!

  Jessica Ortner

  Sacrifice, Self, Appreciate

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• Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

  Stephen Covey

  Fun, Pursuit Of Happiness, Self

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• He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Impossible

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• Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

  Games, Hands, People

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• Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

  Bernard Gilpin

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

  Andrew Sharp

  Wine, Men, Mind

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• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Peace

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• What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.

  Victor Serge

  Dream, War, Party

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.133, University of Iowa Press

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