I’m compiling quotations to use on a client’s website. Quite a few are perfectly perfect for a beautiful summer weekend:
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Colleen Wainwright
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Natalie Goldberg
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
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things … [but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
Sidney J. Harris
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid
Wow. I’m on the same page as Jane Austen and Herodotus?
First (and probably, last) time that’ll happen!
Thanks for the honor.
Colleen: Actually, it is the second time you’ve been among such lofty company. The first time is the “Relaxation Quotations” page on which I found your quote and the others. (And which I should have cited along with the list.)
So double kudos to you!
These are perfectly perfect for the Monday-before-travel-feeling-rushed day I’m having. Thanks for sharing.
“Wherever you are, be all there.” –Lanny Bassham, Olympic gold medalist.
Another nice one, Alan!