Quotes about Relaxation

parents are encouraged to read slowly and yawn frequently. The author describes the book as "the verbal equivalent of rocking a baby to sleep.

And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: "Counting backward from 300 by threes—it works like magic and you never get below 250." On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

No one can pray and worry at the same time.

It's always tea-time.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

Jesus's disciples have faith, but their worry proves the weakness of their faith. Great faith comes not by looking inward, to the believing self, but by looking upward, to God. By faith we stop thinking like pagans, filled with anxiety about food and clothing. Pagans, thinking like orphans, worry. Disciples, thinking like children, relax.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.