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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Sep 15, 2025
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.
Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
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.
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
My yoke is easy, and my burden light.
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.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.
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