For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

—Lily Tomlin

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

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

—Donald Curtis

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… it the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

—George Matthew Adams

One 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

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

—Jean Paul

If you rest, you rust.

 —Helen Hayes

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.            —Voltaire

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

 —Benjamin Franklin

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

 —Spanish proverb

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

 —Sidney J. Harris

A good rest is half the work.                                             —proverb

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

 —Austin O’Malley

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

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians: a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.

 —Schola Salern

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