747+ Best Relax Quotes About Relaxing & Relaxation

In the merciless hustle and bustle of our modern lives, finding moments of tranquility becomes an essential pursuit for both mental and physical well-being. As the pressures of daily existence continue to mount, the importance of relaxation & renewal cannot be overstated. Fortunately, throughout history, wise minds have offered profound insights into the art of unwinding and the luxury of simply letting go. This collection of the best relax quotes serves as a treasure trove of wisdom, a soothing balm for the weary soul, and a reminder that amidst the chaos, the power to relax lies within our grasp. Join us on a journey through the eloquent words of thinkers, poets, and visionaries as we explore the profound significance of relaxing and relaxation.

747+ Best Relax Quotes About Relaxing & Relaxation

A. A. Milne – Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
A.L. Kennedy – A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
Aaron Siskind – We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect… but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that’s your picture.
Abdu’l-Bahá – It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
Abhinavagupta – Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression, stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!
Abraham Lincoln – Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Ace Antonio Hall – No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, ‘relax’. Exhale. Say, ‘I can do this!’ And then do it.
Adi Da – Relax. Nothing is under control.
Adriana Lima – I am lucky enough to live in Miami so dinner on the beach with people I love is one of my favorite ways to relax.
Adyashanti – In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
Aesop – A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aiden Wilson Tozer – God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
Alan Ball – It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life…
Alan Cohen – There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
Alan Cohen – You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
Alan Greenspan – The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
Alan Watts – This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.
Alan Watts – To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Albert Brooks – Relaxation is the absence of worry.
Albert E Cliffe – Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.
Aldous Huxley – In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
Alex Comfort – Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can’t relax here you never will.
Alex Grey – Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a “creation,” but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul’s journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.
Alexander Pushkin – It’s a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions – like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.
Alexandra Bracken – I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
Alfred Kastler – I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
Ali Larter – I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks – it’s really my relaxation.
Allen C. Guelzo – When I need to stretch my legs, I can walk across the street to the museum and relax among the illustrations of Abraham Lincoln’s life, too. In a way, it reflects the halves of Lincoln’s own character – one all jokes and buffoonery, the other all high-minded seriousness. If he could absorb both into his personality, I think I can, too.
Allison Holker – Dance brings out the best in me and makes me feel infinite. It helps me relax and express myself, and it clears my head. Plus, dance keeps me fit!
Amit Ray – If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amy Grant – If I had my life to live over again, I’d run barefoot, relax a bit more, I’d talk more to children, and I’d learn how they laugh.
Amy Poehler – Telling me to relax or smile when I’m angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You’re just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.
Ana Monnar – Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.
Anais Nin – Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
Anatole France – Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Andrea Bocelli – I also always carry my flute. It’s very important for me to try to relax when I’m travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
Andrea Hall – I would tell my 25-year-old self to relax, just trust yourself, it’s going to be okay. You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be right here and right now.
Andrew Hill – I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I’ve tried to do other things, but I’ve learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.
Andrew Sharp – Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
Andrew Weil – Remember that breath walking – as with any meditation technique – should not be pursued with a grim determination to ‘get it right.’ The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil – Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day’s work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.
Andrew Wiles – The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
Angelina Jolie – I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life.
Angelina Love – If we didn’t spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.
Angie Stone – I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you’re outside in the fresh air.
Anna Akhmatova – Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north and it’s autumn I’ve chosen as this year’s friend.
Aristotle – The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Arjuna Ardagh – The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn’t seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it’s also full – it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.
Arne Jacobsen – That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
Ashleigh Brilliant – Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.
Ashleigh Brilliant – Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Austin Mahone – To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I’m a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down – listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.
Ayn Rand – They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

B.K.S. Iyengar – The cure to combat the three S’s- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three W’s- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.
B.K.S. Iyengar – The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
B.K.S. Iyengar – There must be relaxation in full extension.
Barbara Fredrickson – The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.
Barbara Kingsolver – Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
Barbara Park – When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not as exciting as being a television star, but it’s not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you’re finished resting.
Barbara Taylor Bradford – Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
Barbara Walters – Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
Barry Lopez – Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.
Barry Sonnenfeld – We should all relax about life because you don’t have a clue as to what’s really going on.
Benjamin Franklin – He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Benjamin Hoff – And when you try too hard, it doesn’t work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard-one that thinks too much.
Bernard Gilpin – Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
Bernie Siegel – By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
Betty White – I think we’re losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don’t care whether it’s ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.
Bill Murray – It’s incredibly important to be relaxed – you don’t have a chance if you’re not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension.
Bill Murray – The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
Bill Nighy – I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
Bob Cox – Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates…and yourself.
Bob Gibson – Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there’s nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.
Bob Ross – No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.
Bokar Rinpoche – When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within this stability a thought arises. This thought is like a wave which forms on the surface of the ocean. When we leave this thought alone, do nothing with it, not “seizing” it, it subsides by itself into the mind where it came from.
Bonnie L. Oscarson – We just need to relax and rejoice in our divine differences. We need to realize that we all desire to serve in the kingdom, using our unique talents and gifts in our own ways.
Brady Anderson – When you’re going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I’ve always been intense. I didn’t need to be more intense.
Brandon Bays – Know that whatever is happening in your life right now, it’s there for a reason. Just accept the things the way they are. Just relax and let go of all the mental constructs that your mind is creating. Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.
Brandy Norwood – So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that’s why I’m so happy to be back!
Brian Aldiss – Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.
Brian Tracy – Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
Brice Marden – Just relax and let go.
Bruce Frantzis – When you start moving into the internal stuff, you start learning how you don’t get your power from your muscles. You open up the energy channels inside your body and you shoot something through them and all of a sudden, you’ve got many times the power you could get physically, or even if you don’t, some other things. To get this power to come from inside you, this chi, this energy from inside you, you have to learn how to completely relax.

Candace Cameron – I figure this is my time – to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
Carine Roitfeld – I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you’re beautiful when you relax.
Carl Rogers – When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.
Carlos Slim – With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.
Carmen Harra – The breath is a powerful tool. It creates a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind, and connects the mind and the body. When you sit and breathe deeply, your physiology will change, and both your mind and your body will relax and become open. Breathing helps clear your head of the thoughts of the emotions and ego, and it allows you to get closer to your true self.
Carnie Wilson – I don’t know how to relax, that’s my problem.
Carole Katchen – Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear.
Caroline Wozniacki – I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
Carrie Underwood – Sometimes I’ll sip red wine – it’s a nice way to slow down and relax.
Carson Palmer – The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I’m hitting the golf ball well. If I’m not, well, that is another story.
Cate Blanchett – There’s an expression in Australia that’s called ‘Go Bush,’ which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and ‘go bush’ to places where there’s no cell reception. But, I don’t get to do that often, so for the most part, it’s just a state of mind.
Catherine Doherty – Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
Cathy Freeman – Twenty seconds before a race, there’s absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You’ve got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.
Channing Tatum – Just relax and really say what you’re actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.
Charles Barkley – The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
Charles de Saint-Evremond – A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.
Charles R. Swindoll – Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, “Lord, this is Your battle.”
Charlie Chaplin – Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
Charlie Papazian – Relax, don’t worry, have a home brew.
Cheri Huber – When you’re experiencing peace, it’s coming from within you; you’re ‘doing’ peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want…..If you want to be happier – be happier. If you want to be more relaxed – relax. If you want more friends – be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.
Chogyam Trungpa – We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
Chogyam Trungpa – When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
Chris Martin – Everything that’s happening to you, is what’s suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.
Christian Louboutin – If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
Christina Aguilera – I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christopher Columbus – Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.
Christopher McDougall – But you can’t muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.
Christopher McDougall – I received the best advice for running I ever heard: ‘You’re not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you’re running too hard.’
Claude Monet – I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
Clinton Portis – Hopefully I don’t have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I’m still young.
Colin Chapman – July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.
Colin Hanks – Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.
Corbin Bleu – If I’m in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That’s what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.
Cornelia Otis Skinner – The French have no such expression as ‘killing time.’ In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is ‘passing time,’ which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

Dagobert D. Runes – Work is man’s most natural form of relaxation.
Dalai Lama – According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being. Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever obstacles we face.
Dalai Lama – For discovering one’s true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.
Dalai Lama – Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.
Dale Carnegie – What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!
Dan Brown – “Relax,” Langdon whispered. “Do your piranha thing.”
Dan Maskell – When Martina is tense it helps her relax.
Dan Millman – Here and now…breathe and relax…in battle and in life.
Daniel Radcliffe – My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I’m a massive quiz show person.
Daniel Radcliffe – When actors aren’t filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.
Dante Alighieri – I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Darcey Bussell – You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you’re going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.
Dave Chappelle – Dave! Relax! Close your butt cheeks!
Dave Matthews – Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.
David Allen – We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It’s very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you’ll get eaten alive. You can do anything-but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then … control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people.
David Allen – Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
David Bowie – I’ve learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn’t seem such an alien place to be.
David Cronenberg – I like to laze around. I think that’s a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you’re trying to find.
David D. Burns – More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the “bad” behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.
David Deida – As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That’s it. We can relax as the entire moment’s show of love’s swirl, feeling open as all–a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover’s lips, a sense of worthlessness– or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.
David Deida – Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman’s emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax.
David McCullough – Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They’re dropping some of the masks that they’ve been wearing. There’s a candor.
David Moody – As long as the music’s playing I don’t have to do anything except listen, relax, and enjoy myself.
David Simon – Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.
David Simon – Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.
David Suchet – I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it’s a great way to relax.
Deepak Chopra – Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.
Deepak Chopra – Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the aging process.
Deepak Chopra – Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.
Deepak Chopra – Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use technology to relax and improve performance. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
Delphine Arnault – When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.
Denis Johnson – Love and violence – not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that’s what I’ve learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don’t tear me in two, but lift me up.
Derek Fisher – You’re at your best, when you’re focused and you’re serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.
Diablo Cody – I can’t write at night. For me, I’m programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.
DJ Khaled – One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body.
Dominic Roussel – His face is so calm. He shows no sign of stress or anything. It’s as if he’s saying, “No problem. Relax. I’m just going to beat you now. It’s not going to hurt a bit.”
Donald Curtis – Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one’s being.
Donald Woods Winnicott – Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself… and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.
Donovan Bailey – I’d like to be a more consistent starter. I’d like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.
Dorothy Koomson – When you can’t be honest with people, you can’t ever relax with them.
Douglas Adams – “Please relax,” said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, “you are perfectly safe.”
Douglas Pagels – Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
Dr. Seuss – You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche – Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

Eddie Murphy – I’m relaxed about my career. I’ve been making movies for over 20 years, so I’ve earned at least the right to relax.
Edward Bellamy – Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
Edward Carey – During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.
Eileen Caddy – Relax in my love and in turn pour forth that Divine Love out to the world.
Elbert Hubbard – The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Elias Canetti – I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, ‘Relax!
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross – 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 Gilbert – Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one…. This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
Elizabeth Jane Howard – A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you’re the star. And you don’t miss anything by falling asleep!
Elizabeth Jane Howard – I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.
Elizabeth Lesser – Every day we’re given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Elizabeth Lesser – I accept that life is uncertain–that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing–a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.
Elle Macpherson – I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.
Ellen MacArthur – There’s a plane flying over me and I’m looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.
Ellen Swallow Richards – I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.
Elsa Hosk – I love to relax. It’s my favorite thing in the world. I am very good at being like a grandma and staying in and watching Game of Thrones or a movie. I think I could do that every night.
Elvis Stojko – You have to be able to focus, to control your energy. You need to make it your ally, instead of trying to harness it, to muscle it. That wastes energy too. There has to be a harmony between you and your body. Your mind and your body, and your soul have to connect in order to move forward. And this comes through relaxation.
Emerson Fittipaldi – You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.
Emile Hirsch – Believing in yourself you gain confidence, which allows you to relax. Relaxation is one of the most important parts about acting.
Emily Giffin – It’s a funny thing – when I’m crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!
Emma Watson – It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I’m not working on ‘Harry Potter,’ then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
Erich Schiffmann – The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.
Erin Hamlin – Yoga is a big part of my destressing. Even sitting on the floor for 10 minutes to center myself, stretch and relax can be a huge game changer.
Erma Bombeck – Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.
Ernest Hemingway – I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Ernest Renan – Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.
Ernie J Zelinski – Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.
Erykah Badu – What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

Esther Hicks – All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.
Esther Hicks – Everything is unfolding perfectly. And as you relax and find ease in your attitude of trust, knowing that Well-Being is your birth-right, amazing things will happen. Things the likes of which you have not seen before.
Esther Hicks – Everything you want is coming. Relax and let the universe pick the timing and the way.
Esther Hicks – If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you.
Esther Hicks – No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It’s the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.
Esther Hicks – Some things you’re not letting happen right now because the timing isn’t perfect for you. Some you’re not letting happen because you are very aware of where you are. But all things, as they are happening, are happening in perfect order. And if you will relax and begin saying, “Everything in its perfect time. Everything is unfolding. And I’m enjoying where I am now, in relationship to where I’m going. Content where I am, and eager for more,” that is the perfect vibrational stance.
Esther Hicks – The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you’ve discovered – and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.
Esther Hicks – You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.
Esther Hicks – You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac – Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It’s used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.
Etty Hillesum – Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
Euripides – Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Eva Gabor – The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
Eva Mendes – I’m actually taking advantage of my time off… This year has been great for me because I’ve learned how to relax. The last three years have been amazing but kind of crazy. So I don’t know, I feel grounded. I feel really good.
Ezekiel Emanuel – I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald – I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other’s presence, a new serenity.
Felicity Kendal – I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
Flannery O’Connor – When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock — to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
Fran Kranz – The more experience I get, the more I know to relax and let go of things because there’s so much that is out of your control.
Francesca Lia Block – Here you go on this long long dream. Don’t even try to wake up. Just let it go on until it is over. You will learn many things. Just relax and observe because there is pain and that’s it mostly and you aren’t going to be able to escape no matter what. Eventually it will all be over anyway. Good luck.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld – When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Frank Skinner – How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.
Frederick Lenz – Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.
Frederick Lenz – If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.
Frederick Lenz – Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.
Frida Giannini – The idea of ‘ferie,’ or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It’s a time to relax, reflect and recharge.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Fritjof Capra – During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Gabby Douglas – I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
Gabourey Sidibe – Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to stop myself and say, ‘Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.’
Gael Monfils – I just try to be relax, because I’m always been a relaxed person.
Gael Monfils – If you want to talk, it’s okay with me. I sit and relax.
Garth Brooks – I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won’t believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.
Garth Brooks – I’m a big movie fan. After a show, if I’m on the bus or a plane, it’s often hard to get to sleep, so I’ll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
Gary Panter – Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I’m like, Oh, my god, I’ll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.
Gary Zukav – Relax into the present moment.
Gary Zukav – What is failure? We can’t possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that’s because they’re judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what’s a success and what’s a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.
Gaston Bachelard – Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
Gavin DeGraw – Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space
Gay Hendricks – As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.
Geneen Roth – All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.
Geneen Roth – When you don’t want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation–not resistance, not warfare, not fights.
Geneen Roth – You can’t be stuck if you’re not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what’s true.
George Carlin – My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off.
George Carlin – People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they’re not going to let it get out of control.
George Henry Powell – What’s the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.
George Lopez – So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother’s house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.
George Matthew Adams – A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams – You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search of peace of mind. You can experiment with a dozen theories, hoping for a relief from worries, or the problems which beset you, but unless you learn to relax you will end up disappointed. Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.
George Noory – Chill out, relax and have an open mind.
George Packer – Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn’t understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.
George Saunders – One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it’s going to, we can just relax and do it. Unfortunately, in my experience, that’s not the way it works. The story doesn’t want to be told what to do. You have to enter into this process with a high level of trust that the many hours of choosing that you’re doing every day will gradually clarify the narrative for you. And that’s what happens.
George W. Crane – A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.
Gerald Brenan – We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerolamo Cardano – By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): ‘men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.’
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso – The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso – We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.
Giada De Laurentiis – I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I’m also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.
Gigi Hadid – Recently, I kind of found that if I just step into my own skin and relax and just walk like I’m just walking down the street, it always looks better than if you try too many cool moves.
Glen Hansard – I’ve realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it’s equally as important.
Gordon Hempton – The Hoh Valley is an incredibly secure area. Any event occurs around us, we will instantly become informed of that event. This can even happen at a distance. When the body recognizes that you have a very large listening area, and you’re getting all the information, the body relaxes. You can breathe more gently, the cortisol levels that are created by stress in our bloodstream dissipate, and we actually become healthier. And as a result, if we are actually fortunate enough to live in a place like that, we will live longer.
Grenville Kleiser – You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – Don’t think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
Hamza Yusuf – If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax.
Hank Williams III – One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn’t about the addiction, but more so that I’m trying to let people have a good time at my shows and forget their problems. Relax and enjoy. There’s not certain religions or politics sold on them. Just come out, have a beer, have a laugh, good energy from stage and have a good time.
Hannah More – It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi – There is no such thing as an accident. It is all part of a master plan. Play your role as gracefully as you can and relax.
Harland Williams – I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That’s about all you need to know about life, I think.
Harry Borden – True creativity is more likely if you are more relaxed.
Haruki Murakami – What do I like about math? , When I’ve got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.
Helene Hanff – Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
Henepola Gunaratana – Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedfom and security are yours.
Henri Matisse – What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henry David Thoreau – He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.
Henry David Thoreau – It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
Henry David Thoreau – 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. This life in the present.
Henry David Thoreau – Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature’s laws are more immutable than any despot’s, yet to man’s daily life they rarely seem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.
Henry Ward Beecher – Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
Heraclitus – It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Herbert Benson – The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress… and the opposite of the fight or flight response.
Herodotus – 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.
Hilary Rhoda – Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It’s so close, which is perfect because it’s the minimal travel time.
Hilary Swank – My relaxation has always been my animals – going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.
Hillary Clinton – I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven’t done it for 20 years.
Horace – Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
Horace Greeley – Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.
Hunter S. Thompson – No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won’t hurt.

Ian Fleming – Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond’s natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya – There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.
Ilchi Lee – The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.
Ingrid Bergman – The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that’s work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.
Irene Rosenfeld – Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.
Isabella Bird – Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.
Isabella Bird – Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the dreamy, colored, slow-moving Malay life which passes below the hill. There is never any hurry or noise.
Italo Calvino – Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.

J. G. Ballard – If their work is satisfying people don’t need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.
J. G. Holland – If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.
Jack Black – After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.
Jack Kerouac – Believe in the holy contour of life.
Jack Kornfield – Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
Jack Ohman – If you’ve got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
Jackie Chan – Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
Jackson Browne – Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that’s not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don’t know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don’t have any pressure on me.
Jacqueline Emerson – Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you’re so much happier in general.
Jacques Ellul – The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. … Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.
Jacques Pepin – When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what’s the big deal? Relax.
James Carroll – 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 must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Franco – There’s a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I’ll just tell them to relax.
James Garner – I smoked marijuana for 50 years. It opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal.
James M. Loy – I’m trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.
James Thurber – Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
Jane Austen – To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Janet Robertson – There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe and relax. This is tantra.
Jason Statham – I like to relax. Spend it with people that I’ve grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach.
Jay Michaelson – All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.
Jay Michaelson – What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse – If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
Jemima Kirke – I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.
Jennifer Morrison – Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don’t need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.
Jennifer Saunders – At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.
Jennifer Wyatt – I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I’ve done it a million times before.
Jerry Orbach – Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we’re gonna start another season.
Jerry Smith – Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
Jessica Andrews – I love to watch movies, go swimming and just chill. Fun stuff relaxes me.
Jessica Simpson – There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That’s the only time that I’m relaxing. It’s the only time I really get to examine myself.
Jessie J – I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me.
Jiddu Krishnamurti – Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti – When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren’t creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still. Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented. Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world. Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention. For this total attention, this soft and pure consciousness that we are, is nothing but Love itself.
Jim Bowden – Feel the mountain and let it show you how you’re going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn’t a fight, it’s a dance, and the mountain always leads.
Jim Parsons – Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, “I don’t care if I look like an ass,” it’s really fun to see what happens.
Jimmy Durante – What did Napoleon do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red.
Jock Sturges – I’ll go to do a shoot, I’ll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I’m all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.
Joe Cocker – Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
Joe Hyams – To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.
Joe Satriani – Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.
Joel Osteen – If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you’re waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there’s nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann – Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann – Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
John Calipari – The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players’ self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.
John Denver – Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.
John Galsworthy – And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
John Goodman – Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you’re doing. Don’t worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.
John Lennon – Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
John Lubbock – Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lydon – I love boating – not flash, ‘noisy go fast’ nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
John Michael Higgins – That’s how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.
John Ruskin – The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.
John Steinbeck – And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.
John Templeton – True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.
Jonathan Haidt – Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.
Jonathan Horton – I tell my coach all the time “Hey, listen, coach. You know the hardest person on me isn’t you, right? It’s me.” I’m the hardest person on myself, my biggest critic, always pushing. But there are days when I have to tell myself, “Relax, breathe, you’re too stressed out.” When it’s no longer fun, when it’s no longer something you can tolerate, that’s when you have to take a break.
Jonathan Keltz – For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.
Jose Raul Capablanca – During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.
Joseph Conrad – I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joyce Brothers – No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.
Juan Pablo Galavis – There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.
Judith Hanson Lasater – Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.
Julia Cameron – I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God’s timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God’s unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God’s timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God’s opportunities.
Julia Roberts – There’s one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don’t get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.
Julie Burchill – When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby – anything from building models to watching sport.
Julie Walters – The way I relax is I think, ‘I haven’t got anything coming up.’ I like to know there are months ahead when I’ve got nothing.
Justin Gatlin – People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You’ve got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.
Justin Halpern – The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain’t spitting it out.
Justin Nozuka – I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm and connected fashion.

Karen O – For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
Karl Pilkington – I’m not a proper traveler. I don’t like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
Kathleen McDonald – Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
Kathleen Turner – You know, when you’ve worked with somebody before and you’ve worked very deeply and dangerously then you start with the relaxation and the trust right away and that lets you go even deeper, which is a lovely thing.
Kathy Freston – Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself permission to relax, people will feel more relaxed around you; your environment will become more harmonious. Balance – between work and pleasure, giving and receiving, seriousness and levity – creates a happy healthy life.
Kathy Reichs – I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It’s nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.
Katy B – I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don’t go to pull a guy.
Keeley Hawes – I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn’t really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.
Ken Kesey – You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself.
Ken Wilber – As you go deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simple feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once?
Kenneth Cole – I’ve always believed that if somebody looks good, they invariably are going to feel good. And it’s self-fulfilling, because you’ll just relax, you’ll smile, you’ll think you own the world. But if you also do good, you’ll feel even better. So my goal is to make what we do meaningful in as many people’s lives as we can.
Kenny Chesney – My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
Kevin Whately – Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don’t go over my lines or try to solve the world’s problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.
Khalil Gibran – The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.
Kourtney Kardashian – When every moment is constantly being filmed, it’s hard to relax.
Krist Novoselic – I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

Laini Taylor – If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.
Larry King – I’m sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it’s OK to relax
Laurie Colwin – We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
Leah Remini – I’m not a neat freak. I don’t mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can’t relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.
Lena Dunham – I’m not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
Lenny Kravitz – I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don’t get to do it often . . .
Lenny Krayzelburg – Most of the preparedness happens during training every single day, so it’s all about getting to a meet and being as relaxed as possible. Personally, I just try to stay in the crowd of people, just talking so my mind doesn’t think only about swimming. That helps me to relax. And at this level, we all know what needs to be done once we jump in the pool.
Leona Lewis – I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it’s so soothing for your muscles.
Leonard Cohen – I do cherish those moments when I can just relax in the hotel room. Because there are a lot of details that have to be taken care of aside from just getting up onstage. You’re dealing with a number of human beings whose well-being and safety you’re concerned about. There are people I like to meet and talk to in the crew and the band.
Leonard Jacobson – Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.
Leonard Jacobson – When you awaken, you know that everything that occurs at the level of mind is illusory in nature and so you no longer believe in it as the truth of life. It is sometimes happy and sometimes sad, because it is a world of duality. You relax and accept the dual nature of the world of the mind and the world of experience within time. This will create balance within duality which will open the doorway to Oneness.
Leonard Orr – The average session takes about one to two hours. It’s totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
Leonardo da Vinci – 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.
Lewis Black – Just relax and breathe through your ass.
Lewis Pugh – I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it’s swimming or talking.
Liam Tancock – I try to relax and enjoy it. I don’t really get nervous, I get excited! I love training, but my main excitement comes from when I’m racing and the better the standard of people I’m racing, the more excited I get and the more ‘up for it’ I get.
Lily Tomlin – For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Lin Yutang – Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lindsey Vonn – It seems kind of silly, but it’s really nice to chill in the kitchen with a friend and bake. It relaxes me, and mixing is probably my favorite part.
Lisa Edelstein – Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it’s not right for everybody. It’s taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.
Lloyd (Bud) Winter – Demand perfection of yourself and you’ll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax – pursue excellence, not perfection.
Louise Hart – Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we give a gift of joy to another. Happy and joyous family times are a unifying force. They increase closeness and positive feelings. They increase loyalty to the family team. Everyone relaxes and feels more alive. Love just happens when you’re having fun together!
Louise Hay – I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.
Louise Hay – In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to a state of openness and receptivity. You are always in change. You are always safe.
Louise Hay – The ability to relax and be mindfully present in the moment comes naturally when we are grateful.
Louise Hay – When I feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body.
Louise Hay – You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to let go of? Take a deep breath, relax, and say to yourself, ‘I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.’
Lucille Kallen – Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there’s no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There’s no question about that. There’s only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?
Lucretius – True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
Lynda Obst – The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. … The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.
Lynn Hill – Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn’t possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can’t do a move I merely accept that I haven’t discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and foot placement, until I find something that does work. That’s what I mean by keeping an open mind.

Magda Gerber – Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.
Magda Gerber – Wouldn’t life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?
Magdalena Neuner – Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.
Mahatma Gandhi – There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Malcolm Forbes – Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.
Marci Shimoff – The first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe in life and being present in the here and now. It’s only when we are really grounded and safe that we’re able to relax and open up our hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero – He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius Cicero – Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero – Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.
Marcus Tullius Cicero – The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.
Margaret Jones – Hey, it’s your birthday. Sit back, relax and enjoy it; you’ve earned it! Have a Great One.
Margaret Jones – On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax; you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.
Marianne Williamson – Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it’s doing. Faith is a psychological awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions. Our attempts to direct this force only interferes with it. Our willingness to relax into it allows it to work on our behalf.
Marianne Williamson – What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that’s holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?
Mariel Hemingway – Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mario Batali – Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
Mark Gonzales – I have a lot of time to smoke a cigar and sit around and do nothing and enjoy life-and wonder and ponder. I need time to think about how to conquer things. I am faced with the challenge of what I will do next and how will I do it.
Mark Nepo – One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.
Mark Romanek – I think that I’ve learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.
Mark Whitwell – Happiness arises when you relax into the reality of your natural condition. The secrets of the universe are already in you as you. Seeking anything implies that you don’t have it; every search for the idea of enlightenment leads you further away from it. The magnificance of life does not await you – it actually is you.
Marshall Faulk – Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.
Martha Beck – If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.
Martha Beck – If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.
Martha Beck – Though we often see life troughs as the universe’s conspiracy to ruin us, they’re actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
Martin Shaw – I like watching DVDs, flying my plane, walking and going to my place in Scotland. I like yoga. It takes me a while to unwind, the subconscious parts of my mind take a while to catch up with the rest of me.
Marvin Gaye – Relax, just relax. It’s all going to be all right.
Mary Anne Radmacher – Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
Mary Docter – I’m supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.
Mary J. Blige – No one intimidates me because I’m not trying to do what you do, because I can’t do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.
Mason Cooley – My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
Mata Amritanandamayi – Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.
Mata Amritanandamayi – Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.
Mata Amritanandamayi – You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.
Matt McGorry – I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I’ve slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.
Matt McGorry – You do the things you do, and you do the best you can, and that’s all you can hope for, and don’t worry too much if it’s not it.
Matthew Ashford – Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me… a relaxation… I get my ideas from everyday events.
Matthew Moy – I get butterflies just like everyone else. So I meditate for at least ten minutes before I perform. I breathe in and out slowly for ten minutes, and that literally helps me slow my heart rate and relax.
Maureen Connolly – You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.
Maxwell Maltz – Happiness is the art of relaxation.
Maya Angelou – Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Mehmet Murat Ildan – Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man’s flying to the land of silence.
Mehmet Murat Ildan – Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!
Melissa Etheridge – I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.
Mellody Hobson – If we can learn to deal with our discomfort and just relax into it we’ll have a better life.
Melody Beattie – Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.
Melody Beattie – Relax, you’re on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.
Michael Bay – It’s great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we’ve all got to relax a bit more.
Michael Graziadei – I use music as a tool for my own personal sanity, one might say. After a long day or something, I can always come home and sit down and play a song, or write a song, just relax and kind of space out with my guitar.
Michael Gurian – As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children’s. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek…
Michael Jordan – I would tell players to relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.
Michael Jordan – If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn’t have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.
Michael Jordan – When I step onto the court, I don’t have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It’s like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
Michael Phelps – I’ve always been fortunate in that I’ve been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I’m lucky to be that way
Michael W. Smith – Some of the most powerful times are when we’re quiet.
Michelangelo Antonioni – The way I relax, what I like doing most, is watching. That’s why I like traveling, to have new things before my eyes – even a new face. I enjoy myself like that and can stay for hours, looking at things, people, scenery.
Michelle Pfeiffer – I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
Michio Kaku – For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton’s laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton’s laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.
Michio Kaku – When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.
Mike Dooley – Relax. Breathe in deep. Hold it. Let it out. Loosen your shoulders. Smile. Close your eyes. You’ll be surprised at how many voices you’ll hear, whispering sweet encouragement into your ear.
Mike Tyson – Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I’m really calm and collected. Even though I’m fighting, I’m calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can’t fight at the highest level of your ability.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky – I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.
Milt Gross – The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.
Ming Xi – I like to go to places where you can relax a little after you’re done working.
Miranda Hart – I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I’m happy.
Miranda Kerr – If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you’re laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.
Moises Arias – It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.
Moliere – Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
Mooji – You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying too hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow!
Morgan Freeman – I go on vacation strictly to relax – to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
Murray Mexted – Life is vital and we should relax a little and enjoy it as we only have one life as far as I’m aware.

Napoleon Hill – When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.
Narendra Modi – I’m not the “not-working” type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.
Nas – Let the music diffuse all the tension.
Natalia Makarova – Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
Natalie Goldberg – Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
Neale Donald Walsch – Do not jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy. Just breathe, and relax.
Nelson Mandela – You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.
Nhat Hanh – From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.
Nhat Hanh – Smile, breathe and go slowly.
Nhat Hanh – Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
Nhat Hanh – We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Nhat Hanh – We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.
Nhat Hanh – We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
Nicolas Cage – I’ve gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.
Nigella Lawson – But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.
Nina Agdal – I actually love spinning for relaxation and to keep my body healthy, but besides that, I love exploring new restaurants. I love being outdoors. I love just spending time in the sun and hanging out with my friends.
Nina Agdal – We’re really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That’s from experience.
Noah Levine – We come to understand the law of casuality – that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they’re experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them – and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.
Nora Roberts – I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it’s good for me.
Norm MacDonald – The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
Norman Vincent Peale – Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
Norman Vincent Peale – The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Olaus Murie – There is growing awareness of the beauty of country … a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance… They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.
Olivier Theyskens – I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that’s done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
Orlando Bloom – I love places that are completely cut off from everything – where I can relax and enjoy the simplicity of nature.
Orville Dewey – Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.
Oscar de la Renta – Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
Ovid – Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid – What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Pablo Picasso – When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
Pablo Picasso – When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
Paloma Picasso – I don’t have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.
Pamela Anderson – My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it’s like therapy.
Paramahansa Yogananda – Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
Paramahansa Yogananda – I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
Park Chan-wook – If I want to relax and not do anything, I don’t want to leave home.
Patience Strong – Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.
Patricia Curtis – When it comes to knowing how to relax, cats are the original yoga experts.
Patrick Rothfuss – We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that.
Patty Sheehan – Enjoy the successes that you have, and don’t be too hard on yourself when you don’t do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
Paul Bowles – He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and space, he also lacked the desire. … In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one.
Paul Brunton – This withdrawal from the day’s turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.
Paul Dirac – I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state… I used to take long solitary walks on Sundays, during which I tended to review the current situation in a leisurely way. Such occasions often proved fruitful, even though (or perhaps, because) the primary purpose of the walk was relaxation and not research.
Paul Harvey – Yoga aims to bring about a situation where the mind is quieter and more effective. It’s not only about relaxation, it’s also about improving our energy. It’s about making us more decisive and at the same time better able to judge a situation clearly.
Paul Walker – Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.
Paulo Coelho – He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.
Paulo Coelho – It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
Paulo Coelho – Relax…90% of haters are begging for love. 10% just want a little attention.
Paulo Coelho – The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
Pema Chodron – Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
Pema Chodron – I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.
Pema Chodron – If we’re willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be eliminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.
Pema Chodron – It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.
Pema Chodron – Lower your standards and relax as it is.
Pema Chodron – Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It’s such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we’re doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We’re letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.
Pema Chodron – Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness…..Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?
Pema Chodron – Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.
Pema Chodron – The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.
Pema Chodron – We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
Pema Chodron – When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.
Pema Chodron – When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
Penelope Leach – A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. It will work if the trouble is some kind of general and diffuse irritability or tenseness which is preventing a tired baby relaxing into sleep. The burring sound of a fan or heater works excellently. So does the sound of a car engine.
Peter Sellers – Relax, I’ll get it.
Phil Jackson – When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
Philip Pullman – Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don’t try and shut it out.
Pico Iyer – And it’s only by going nowhere – by sitting still or letting my mind relax – that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.
Plutarch – Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Po Bronson – Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that’s active leisure.
Pope Francis – Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Poppy Delevingne – I get stressed preparing the night before a red-carpet event, so I like to try and plan on doing nothing in the day so I can relax and unwind beforehand. I usually take a long bath, eat a healthy meal and catch up on some reading.

Queen Latifah – I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
Questlove – Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It’s a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

Rachael Ray – I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
Rafael Nadal – I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing – doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rajneesh – Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence.
Rajneesh – Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations – swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun – anything. Life is full of opportunities.
Rajneesh – Buddha says: Remember, you have to do much, but the ultimate always happens when you are not doing anything. It happens in a let-go. PRANIHAN IS the state of let-go. You do all that you can do; it will help, it will prepare the ground, but it cannot cause the truth to happen. When you have done everything that you can do, then relax, then nothing more is left.
Rajneesh – Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.
Rajneesh – Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.
Rajneesh – Don’t go on escaping problems, face them. The problem is that you are tense, so the goal should be how to be non-tense, not, smoking or not smoking. Meditate. Relax your tensions without any object into the sky, allow catharsis to happen. When you are non-tense these things will become absurd, foolish, and they will drop. Food will change, your styles of living will change.
Rajneesh – Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
Rajneesh – First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core.
Rajneesh – Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed. Total relaxation is paradise.
Rajneesh – If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is a more complex phenomenon. Once you have become confident that the body listens to you, you will have a new trust in yourself. Now even the mind can listen to you. It will take a little longer with the mind, but it happens.
Rajneesh – Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.
Rajneesh – Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow the law, follow the natural course. Don’t be unnatural, don’t try to fight with nature – stop being a fighter. Learn how to relax with nature, learn to let go. Flow with nature, allow nature to possess you totally.
Rajneesh – Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.
Rajneesh – Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight… just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen… not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence.
Rajneesh – Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke – and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about. And in that very relaxation something starts changing in you – a radical change, a transformation – and the small things of life starts having new meaning, new significance. One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in life.
Rajneesh – Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming – perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing – that’s okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.
Rajneesh – Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching as one watches birds flying in the sky. Just Lying down on the ground and watching, nothing to do, indifferent. Not your concern really, where they are going; they are going on their own.
Rajneesh – One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely body oriented. Nobody has ever thought that by running meditation is possible – but I know, I used to love running myself. It happens. If you go on running, if you run fast, thinking stops, because thinking cannot possibly continue when you are running very fast. For thinking an easy chair is needed, that’s why we call thinkers armchair philosophers; they sit and relax in a chair, the body completely relaxed, then the whole energy moves into the mind.

Rajneesh – Relaxation happens of its own accord. Just think of the word relax. Be, settle, you have come home.
Rajneesh – Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena – very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the ways of relaxation.
Rajneesh – Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter.
Rajneesh – Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It is a state of non-doing. You simply relax and you enjoy the feeling of relaxation. Relax into yourself, just close your eyes, and listen to all that is happening all around. No need to feel anything as distraction. The moment you feel it is a distraction, you are denying God. This moment God has come to you as a bird. Don’t deny.
Rajneesh – Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not a result of practicing. Remember the difference because when you practice you become more tense.
Rajneesh – Remember, don’t start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation. I have come across one book – the name of the book is YOU MUST RELAX! Now that very word ‘must’ is enough to keep you tense. Relaxation cannot be a “must,” it cannot be an effort.
Rajneesh – Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
Rajneesh – So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.
Rajneesh – Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it–and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.
Rajneesh – The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump…but it takes time to understand.
Rajneesh – The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life – you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.
Rajneesh – The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind.
Rajneesh – There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be tense, you will remain tense. How to relax? Is there any way to relax? There is no way unless understanding is there. If you understand the nature of the world, the nature of the very existence, then who are you to worry, and why be in a worried state continuously?
Rajneesh – This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that you are happy because of something. You are simply happy. Happiness is your nature. Unhappiness is something nurtured, you have learned it. Every credit goes to you for all your misery, but for happiness, you cannot have any credit. It is natural. You were born happy. You were happy in your mother’s womb.
Rajneesh – To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance.
Rajneesh – Total relaxation is the ultimate. That’s the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.
Rajneesh – Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding. This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego.
Rajneesh – You ask me, “Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed.”
Rajneesh – You will have to relax from the circumference. The first step in relaxing is the body. Remember as many times as possible to look in the body, whether you are carrying some tension in the body somewhere – at the neck, in the head, in the legs. Relax it consciously. Just go to that part of the body, and persuade that part, say to it lovingly “Relax!”
Rajneesh – Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine – Find your centre and live in it.
Randall Cunningham – I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I’ve been doing in practice will carry over into the game.
Randy Johnson – Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
Ray Bradbury – Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
Ray Bradbury – Write. Don’t think. Relax.
Ray Davies – All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
Revathi – Everybody needs some time to rejuvenate, refresh, recharge and begin again. Seeing babies face is the best way to relax, refresh, rejuvenate and recharge.
Richard Bach – I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.
Richard Bach – If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.
Richelle Mead – In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus.” His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.
Rick Warren – I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call “divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually.” Divert daily is everyday you do something that’s not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.
Rick Warren – You can’t make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something.
Robert A. Heinlein – Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert Bly – I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.
Robert Regis Dvorak – Smile, breathe, relax and stay present.
Robert Reich – I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
Robert Tisserand – Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.
Robin Sharma – Creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. And when it comes, it brings ideas that rock your world.
Roger Ballen – I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.
Rollo May – Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
Romain Grosjean – I think I am disciplined when I need to be, and relax when I can.
Ronnie Wood – I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
Roseanne Barr – Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.
Roxane Gay – If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.
Rufus Wainwright – I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.
Rutina Wesley – I feel that my path is going to be what it’s going to be, and as long as I relax and breathe, I can enjoy it.
Ryan Howard – The main thing right now is just going out and having fun. I know what I want to do. If I go out and have fun and relax, then all my goals should come true.
Ryan Seacrest – A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That’s consistent with who I am. I don’t pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

Sakyong Mipham – If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.
Sakyong Mipham – It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don’t we think about training our mind?
Sakyong Mipham – Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.
Sakyong Mipham – When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.
Salma Hayek – Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby – and anyone who’s a mother knows it’s very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!
Salma Hayek – When I’m doing a movie, that’s when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That’s why I make so many.
Samael Aun Weor – To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.
Samantha Stosur – Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I’m looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
Samuel Johnson – Tea’s proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
Sarah Dessen – So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.
Scott Adams – If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.
Seneca the Younger – Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
Seneca the Younger – The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
Seth Godin – Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.
Seth, Jane Roberts – True creativity comes from enjoying the moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity.
Seth, Jane Roberts – When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.
Shakti Gawain – There is a wise being living inside of you. It is your intuitive self. Focus your awareness into a deep place in your body, a place where your “gut feelings” reside. You can communicate with it by silently talking to it, making requests, or asking questions. Then relax, don’t think too hard with your mind, and be open to receiving answers. They are usually very simple and relate to the present moment, not the past or the future, and they feel right.
Shakti Gawain – To enjoy your goals, think of them as signposts, pointing you in a certain direction. They give you a focus and help your energy to get moving. The way you go is up to you; you can get very uptight focusing only on getting to your goal or you can relax and enjoy the entire journey, appreciating every unexpected bend and turn of the road, every new opportunity for learning and feeling.
Shakuntala Devi – I relax completely when I’m at rest. I don’t think of numbers; I don’t think of work.
Shaquille O’Neal – Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.
Shaun White – I’m on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
Shawn Johnson – I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It’s a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.
Shelby Harris – We’ll work on relaxation strategies and also changing the times you go to bed will actually make them sleep a little bit less for a few nights so their body’s natural sleep drive starts to kick in. That is very effective in about 60% to 70% of patients who do it, four to eight sessions, not even every week; it works for 60% to 70% of patients.
Shelby Lynne – My drawings are another kind of music for me…they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.
Sherman Hemsley – I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.
Sherrilyn Kenyon – Relax, the bad guys don’t knock.
Shiri Appleby – I feel like I get really stressed out sometimes. I just want someone to tell me, “Relax, it’s all going to be okay.” I think that’s all we really need.
Shitou Xiqian – Let go of hundreds of years and relax completely. Open your hands and walk, innocent. Thousands of words, myriad interpretations, are only to free you from obstructions. If you want to know the undying person in the hut, don’t separate from this skin bag here and now.
Simon Sinek – The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn’t. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it’s time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason – to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
Simone Elkeles – Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.
Sogyal Rinpoche – Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.
Sogyal Rinpoche – The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
Solomon – The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
Sonia Faleiro – Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money.
Sophie Edington – I’ve just been enjoying the training a bit more. I’ve put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.
Spalding Gray – I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, ‘You’re just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.’
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj – The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease – that is when things happen.
Stan Musial – I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.
Stan Musial – The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don’t hit the fly ball to center field.
Stephan Bonnar – You’ve got to calm everything down, you’ve got to remind yourself to relax.
Stephen Amell – You have to relax when you’re shooting an arrow. You can’t be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.
Stephen Chow – I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.
Stephen Curry – Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that’s something we like to do. Like I said, it’s a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.
Stephen Russell – In fact, it’s even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.
Sterling Marlin – It’s good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you’re out there on the tractor there’s nobody to bother you.
Steve Martin – I’ve finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I’ve done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.
Steve McQueen – Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.
Steve Nash – You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.
Steven Erikson – You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you’re a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It’s always worked for me, I assure you.
Steven Machat – Marijuana allows one to take a breath and see the realities of a situation without the news beating their interpretation into our brains. Pot relaxes you.
Susan Sarandon – Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
Suzanne Somers – Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You’ll look and feel way better for it.
Swami Nithyananda – The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system… the moment you relax from the ‘I’ the ‘other’ will disappear… you become ‘one’ with the truth.
Sydney J. Harris – The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
Sylvia Boorstein – Being silent for me doesn’t require being in a quiet place and it doesn’t mean not saying words. It means, “receiving in a balanced, noncombative way what is happening.” With or without words, the hope of my heart is that it will be able to relax and acknowledge the truth of my situation with compassion.
Sylvia Plath – There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

T. B. Joshua – Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit.
Taika Waititi – Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
Takashi Murakami – The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don’t necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.
Tamra Davis – Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.
Tara Brach – Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.
Tara Brach – Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.
Tara Brach – Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
Tara Brach – The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
Tara Brach – When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
Tara Brach – When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
Taryn Manning – Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.
Tasha Tudor – Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.
Ted Shackelford – One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
Temple Grandin – The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
Tenzin Palmo – Actually we’ve got countless lifetimes, so relax.
Tenzin Palmo – One has to find a balance. I don’t say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice, but there have to be times when you throw yourself into it, and then there are times when you just relax and realize that wherever you go, you cannot get out of the dharma.
Tenzin Palmo – The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we’re doing when we’re doing it without all the commentary.
Tenzin Palmo – To want not to want, you’ll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.
Terrence Howard – Having grandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you’re more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you’ve done your duty. I’ve reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.
Terry Crews – I relax while I work. It’s really weird but my job doesn’t feel like work at all. That’s why I try to do as much as possible. When I’m on the set, learning lines and playing around, I’m relaxed. It’s so amazing.
The Miz – Relax, I’m going to be out there with you.
The Notorious B.I.G. – Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke
Thomas Aquinas – It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas – Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Thomas Aquinas – Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Merton – Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?
Thomas Merton – Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Tiger Woods – It’s important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.
Tilopa – Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Tim McCarthy – In meditation, it is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to become devoid of all mental thoughts, so what we want to do is fill the mind with those thoughts that induce positive feelings of peace, relaxation or happiness.
Tim McCarthy – The key aspect to meditating is that you close your eyes and engage in thoughts that are positive, uplifting, and create feelings of physical and emotional relaxation.
Tim McCarthy – There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation.
Timothy Leary – Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.
Tom Cruise – I’ve learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.
Tom Cruise – When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
Tom Felton – The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.
Tom Ford – I like to relax and lie in the water. It is the way I calm myself down. But every time I walk past my bathroom, I go in and I put on some perfume. I use different perfumes for different moods. If I feel that I need to calm down, I put on certain fragrances that are more sensual. If I feel that I need to energize, I put on something else. Fragrance for me is so important.
Tom Meighan – I have a bath. It just relaxes me. Sitting there for a bit and just breathe and go ‘ffffuuuhhh….’, you know.
Tom Robbins – People of ze wurl, relax!
Tom Stoppard – Relax. Respond. That’s what people do. You can’t go through life question your situation at every turn.
Tom Welling – I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
Trina – I prefer to do absolutely nothing. I love to relax. But, if there’s a beach around that’s where you’ll find me.
Tristan Wilds – Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’
Twyla Tharp – I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There’s an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
Tyson Chandler – When I’m at my grandparents’, I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members’ company.
Tyson Chandler – Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

Usain Bolt – I’ve learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I’m gonna do after the race, what I’m gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.
Usher – The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren’t too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

Vanessa Williams – I think there’s a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there’s a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it’s a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let’s start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
Vernon Howard – A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
Victor Cruz – Relax, take your time, and you’ll know when it’s there.
Vimala Thakar – When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

W. H. Davies – What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty’s glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
Walter Benjamin – If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
Walter Hagen – When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I’m practically in slow motion. By the time I’m ready to tee off, I’m so used to taking my time that it’s impossible to hurry my swing.
Walter Kirn – Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
Wangari Maathai – I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.
Warren Buffett – The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you’ll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry… People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.
Wayne Dyer – Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, since everything is going to stretch out in Divine order. Don’t try so hard to make something work – simply allow. Don’t always toil at trying to understand your mate, your children, your parents, your boss, or anyone else because the Tao is working at all times.
Wayne Dyer – Softly and kindly remind yourself, ”I cannot own anything.” It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.
Wayne Dyer – Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.
Will Carling – People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.
Will Cuppy – The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.
Will Self – You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.
William James – The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William S. Burroughs – Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
William Shakespeare – I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.
Willie Nelson – As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Xi Jinping – I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

Yip Man – Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent’s movement.
Yoko Ono – I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche – If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind – which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.

Conclusion

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