Relaxation Quotes - Page 16

• Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

  Rachel Wade

  Taken, Fiction, Pages

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• Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Stress, Knowing, Tables

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• Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says its because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

  Neil Strauss

  Educational, Exercise, Creative

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• If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

  Jack Ohman

  Reading, Lakes, Glasses

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• I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Writing, Piano

  "A Fireside Chat With Andrew Hill". Interview with Fred Jung, jazzweekly.com.

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• You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, People, Doe

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

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• There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sadness, Joy, Suffering

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• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rules And Regulations, Noble, Leisure

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Would Be, Leisure, Mankind

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics

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• There must be relaxation in full extension.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Extensions

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• The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

  Jay Michaelson

  Rude, Awakening, Taught

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• I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

  Stan Musial

  Fun, Play, People

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• Breath is critical to everything, to our relaxation, to our flexibility, to our mobility, to our strength and to our power. Knowing how to use our breath and tapping into this breath strength is critical for success as strength athletes.

  Brett Jones

  Athlete, Knowing, Use

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• In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Two, Quality

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• You have to be able to focus, to control your energy. You need to make it your ally, instead of trying to harness it, to muscle it. That wastes energy too. There has to be a harmony between you and your body. Your mind and your body, and your soul have to connect in order to move forward. And this comes through relaxation.

  Elvis Stojko

  Moving Forward, Order, Focus

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• The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and a half months. While the other three Beatles went back to London to start the beginning of their Apple empire, George and I went to Madras for a week’s relaxation. I took this photograph of George one morning, as I thought the light on his face was lovely. I think this was the last time that I saw him looking so calm.

  Pattie Boyd

  Morning, Thinking, Light

  "Former Beatle and Clapton wife looks back with love" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. February 14, 2015.

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• From breathing techniques, muscle toning to overall flexibility and relaxation, my Pilates sessions have become something of a weekly necessity that keeps me fit, happy and energized.

  Pippa Middleton

  Breathing, Technique, Pilates

  "Pippa Middleton: Pilates Is A Weekly Necessity" By Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Worry, Alcohol

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• Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Clever, Men

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Arrows, Shooting, Way

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• The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Profound, Purpose

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Sri Krishnamacharya used to tell me: 'Do the Headstand when you are tired and in need of a tonic; when you are unable to fall asleep; when you are hungry, nervous and unhappy. Do it when in need of relaxation, when the brain is clouded, when you are in low spirits. Do it when your thoughts are distracted and you cannot concentrate properly or meditate.'

  Indra Devi

  Fall, Tired, Brain

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• The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

  Herbert Benson

  Stress, Fighting, Emotional

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