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

When everyone is too busy, don’t expect a more productive society. Expect a frantic society.          —Jeff Davidson

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.                         —Henry David Thoreau

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

—Indra Devi

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

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

—Satchel Paige

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 nonessentials.                                          —Lin Yutang

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.           —Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 still. 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