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40 Relaxing Quotes That Will Make You Want To Curl Up In A Ball And Be Lazy All Day

"Laziness is the first step to efficiency." - Patrick Bennett
Marisa Donnelly
September 15, 2016
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
— Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Tagged: Peace, Art, Love, Compassion
“It's not time to worry yet.”
— Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Tagged: worry, Future, Peace
“Take the next 24 hours and just relax with the knowing that everything is okay. Let go of the stress and worry for one day and see what happens.”
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge: The Class They Don't Teach You in School
Tagged: Stress, worry, relax
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.
It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -
buried under the 50,000 thoughts
the average person thinks every day.”
— Deepak Chopra, Deepak Chopra: 49 Breathtaking and Life Altering Lessons from Deepak Chopra
Tagged: meditation, Peace, Thoughts, Thinking, Quiet, Serenity
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
— Regina Brett, via Pinterest
Tagged: Summer, Relaxation, Lazy, relax
“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 Lubbock, The Use of Life
Tagged: Rest, Relaxation, Summer, Summer Days
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”
— James Dent, via Pinterest
Tagged: Summer Days, Summer, laziness, Summer Laziness, Relaxation, Perfect Ending
“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”
— Ada Louise Huxtable, On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Relaxation, Drunk On Summer, Summer Feels
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
— Milan Kundera, P.S. Grandma Says
Tagged: Dogs, Jealousy, Peace
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?”
— Anthony Trollope, The Warden
Tagged: Coffee, Luxury, Bookworm, Relaxation
“Just a friendly reminder that functioning under the impression that you must be happy all the time can stress you out. Relax. Feel what you're feeling and let it flow.”
— Andrian Janog Jutba, via Facebook
Tagged: Zen, Happiness, yoga, relax, Spilled Ink, Stress, emotions
“You feel at peace.”
— Brianna Wiest, 6 Signs You’ve Already Found The Right Person (So You Can Stop Searching)
Tagged: forever person, Peace, Happiness
“There’s no one blabbing in your ear first thing in the morning or last thing before your head hits the pillow. You don’t have to listen to the TV blaring or the music blasting—unless you want to!”
— Vicki L Hodges, 11 Best Reasons to Stay Single
Tagged: Single Life, Quiet, Silence
“The music helped me focus, there were no words, but the instruments and the melody were uplifting, yet relaxing.”
— Catherine Pulsifer, Yanni Live At The Acropolis
Tagged: relax, Relaxation, Music, calming
“Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.”
— Mark Black, via Pinterest
Tagged: relax, Relaxation, calm
“While there's nothing wrong in being very productive (kudos to you!), your brain still needs some rest to be fully operational whenever you need it.”
— Dabeena Harris, Mindfulness
Tagged: relax, Relaxation, calming, Quiet Time
“It’s really okay to charge up your battery because if you don't you will run out of energy and power.”
— Dyea Smith, Failure Is Fuel
Tagged: Recharging, Relaxation, Finding Strength
“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 Georg von Zimmermann, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Tagged: Relaxing, relax, Retirement, Slowing Down
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun or relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
— Herodotus, Herodotus
Tagged: relax, calm, Fun, Slowing Down
“Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.”
— Norman Vicent Peale, Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Tagged: relax, Relaxation, Peace, calm, Inner Peace
“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.”
— J. A. Hadfield, The Art of Personal Effectiveness
Tagged: relax, Resting, Resting The Mind, calm
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
— Robert J. Sawyer, The Art of Personal Effectiveness
Tagged: relax, Resting, Resting The Mind, calm, calming
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life comes from the elimination of nonessentials.”
— Lin Yutang, The Art of Personal Effectiveness
Tagged: relax, Resting, Resting The Mind, calm
“Relax your fingers. Relax your hand. Relax your heart. Relax into a slower space, where stakes are by definition lower. ”
— Maureen Killoran, The Art of Personal Effectiveness
Tagged: relax, Resting, Resting The Mind, calm
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
— Etty Hillesum, via Pinterest
Tagged: calm, breathing, Slowing Down, calming
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.”
— Charlie Chaplin, The Art of Personal Effectiveness
Tagged: calming, calm
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
— Mahatma Gandhi, On Life & Speed
Tagged: Life, speed, Slowing Down, relax
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
— Chinese Proverb, Tiny Buddha
Tagged: relax, Relaxation, calm, Finding Yourself
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
— William S. Burroughs, Want Answers? Dude, Relax
Tagged: Wait, calm, Quiet, calming
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down Bones
Tagged: relax, Eliminating Stress, On Stress, Calming Down