For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

—Lily Tomlin

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

—Molier

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

—George Macdonald

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow / The faucets leak, and learn to leave them so.

—Marya Mannes

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

—Benjamin Franklin

Busy work brings after ease; / Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; / For young and old, of all degrees, / The mingled lot is best.

—Joanna Baillie

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit if fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

—Heroditus

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

—Henry David Thoreau

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

—Jane Austen

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

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

—Natalie Goldberg

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

—Ovid

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

—Satchel Paige