The bravest thing a person can do is rest.

—Thomas Merton

Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive.

—Bugs Bunny

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

—Benjamin Franklin

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

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.             —Doug Larson

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

 —Spanish Proverb

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.       —Milan Kundera

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

 —Natalie Goldberg

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

 —Will Rogers

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

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.

—Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

 —Mohandas Gandhi

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.   —Aesop

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