For fast-acting relief try slowing down.      —Lily Tomlin

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. —George Macdonald

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

             —Margaret Mead and

                       Rhonda Metraux

Our minds need relaxation and give way / Unless we mix with work a little play.

                                      —Molier

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.               —Benjamin Franklin

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, / We only toil, who are the first of things.

         —Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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.

                —Leonardo da Vinci

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.       —Bertrand Russell

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

        —Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.        —Natalie Goldberg