#relax

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#relax #smoking #business

Fiction is just that–fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It’s entertainment. It’s escapism. It’s 365 pages of relaxation. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#escapism #fiction #relaxation #business

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

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 Chow

#i #i do #kick #lot #me

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

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 Bay

#being #bit #correct #get #got

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#friendly #i #joined #like #loved

In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax it's all I want to do. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#get #i #need #often #relax

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. ↗

— Emerson Fittipaldi

#down #energy #gave #had #heart