Quotes on Relaxation
and Sleep
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed
and perform soothing, quiet activities that
will help you relax.
Dianne Hales
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.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard
to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC),
On the Universe
If a man insisted always on being serious,
and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation,
he would go mad or become unstable without knowing
it.
Herodotus (485 BC - 425 BC),
The Histories of Herodotus
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 (1817 -
1862)
If I had my life to live over I'd like to make
more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would
limber up. I would be sillier than I have been
this trip. I would take fewer things seriously.
I would take more chances. I would climb more
mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat
more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps
have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer
imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people
who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour,
day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and
if I had to do it over again, I'd have more
of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else.
Just moments, one after another, instead of
living so many years ahead of each day. I've
been one of those persons who never goes anywhere
without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a
raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it
again, I would travel lighter than I have. If
I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot
earlier in the spring and stay that way later
in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would
ride more merry-go-rounds, I would pick more
daisies.
Nadine Stair
The time to relax is -- when you don't have
time for it.
Sidney J. Harris
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep
in.
Evan Davis
To achieve the impossible dream, try going
to sleep.
Joan Klempner
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping
and resting.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
People who say they sleep like a baby usually
don't have one.
Leo J. Burke
Now I see the secret of the making of the best
persons. It is to grow in the open air and to
eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open
Road
