If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress, and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it. — George Burns (who lived to 100)
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. — Chinese Proverb
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. — Bertrand Russell
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. — Author Unknown
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. — Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
There is more to life than increasing its speed. — Mohandas K. Gandhi
Time = Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. — Alan Lakein
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
My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner. — Michael Symon
Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. — Leonardo Da Vinci
A good rest is half the work. — Proverb