#relaxation

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. 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. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#listening #relaxation #storytelling #art

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. ↗

— Amit Ray

#meditation #mindfulness #peace #relaxation #tension

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #relax #relaxation #life

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#relaxation #men

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nothing

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#divorce #family #indissoluble #laws #made

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ↗

— Herodotus

#always #become #being #bit #fun

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#from time to time #jokes #make #mind #playful

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#attacks #bear #benjamin #comedy #episodes

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#home #i #i am #lot #me