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Aesop, Fables
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Author Unknown
The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.
Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Chinese Proverb
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Christopher Morley
Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.
Doug Larson
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You
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.
Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.
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.
Etty Hillesum
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
George Jean Nathan
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
H.L. Mencken
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
H.M. Tomlinson
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
J. 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.
Jennifer Yane
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
 
 
 
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