I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

 —Jennifer Yane

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.

 —Charlie Chaplin

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

 —Francoise de la Rochefoucauld

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find inner peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden, or even your bathtub.

—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

 —Sylvia Plath

Working in the garden… gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

 —Ruth Stout

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

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone… The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

—Lin Yutang

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one’s being.

 —Donald Curtis

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

 —Mohandas Gandhi

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

 —Sydney J. Harris

It is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed.

 —Seneca

He that can compose himself is wiser than he who composes books.

 —Benjamin Franklin

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

—Anatole France

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

 —Bill Watterson

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

 —Chinese Proverb