"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

"Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one ’s being."
  — Donald Curtis

"If the destruction of the natural world isn ’t making us happy, then why are we doing it?"
  — Derrick Jensen

"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation ... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run."
  — George Matthew

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn ’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
  — Mark Twain

"Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, Nature is but another name for health."
  — Henry David Thoreau

"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."
  — Unknown

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
  — Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."
  — Cree Indian Proverb

"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness."
  — Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you?d have preferred to talk."
  — Doug Larson

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
  — Lin Yutang