A bountiful crop

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

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