He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Believe in the holy contour of life.
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. '
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.
My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
You will have to relax from the circumference. The first step in relaxing is the body. Remember as many times as possible to look in the body, whether you are carrying some tension in the body somewhere - at the neck, in the head, in the legs. Relax it consciously. Just go to that part of the body, and persuade that part, say to it lovingly "Relax!"
To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.
It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.