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Rest
It was such a lovely day I thought
it a pity to get up.
- W. Somerset Maugham
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid
of troubling or depressing subject matter...like a good armchair
which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
- Henri Matisse
Make rest a necessity, not an objective.
Only rest long enough to gather strength.
- Jim Rohn
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
During [these] 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.
- Fritjof Capra
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation,
for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller
and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony
and proportion is more readily seen.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from
one kind of labour by taking up another.
- Anatole France
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
- Henry David Thoreau
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties
of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose,
becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
- Chuang Tzu
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