Quotes About Relaxing

#1. I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

Moon Bloodgood

#2. I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

Ian Hart

#3. Relaxing, getting wild and free, those were all alien concepts for her.

Jill Shalvis

#4. Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

Suzanne Somers

#5. The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Satish Kumar

#6. I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're coming of age or growing up you look forward and you work really hard instead of sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the moment.

Sean Mackin

#7. I don't think I fully appreciated how relaxing it is having someone I can be really mean to. It's going to be so hard being nice all the time.

Fiona Wood

#8. The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. Well maybe i'll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain.

Al Kaline

#9. Recruit your pet as a study partner. Cats are usually more than happy to do this - in fact, you may have trouble keeping them off keyboards and books - and dogs will often serve as well. Few things are more relaxing than having a warm, furry creature next to you as you study.

Stefanie Weisman

#10. Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip or a long day outdoors, perhaps, we can slip back into the rhythm of the sun.

Richard J. Borden

#11. Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

B. Alan Wallace

#12. Let's accept it that dead people are in position for relaxing and watching.

Deyth Banger

#13. I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.

Cara Buono

#15. There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

Alice Oswald

#16. There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

Jessica Simpson

#17. It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Pema Chodron

#18. I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.

Nicki Minaj

#19. Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business ... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.

Deion Sanders

#20. It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

Manny Pacquiao

#21. I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

Magic Johnson

#22. A good romance novel is like a bubble bath...steamy, relaxing, and over way too soon.

Donna Marie Rogers

#23. A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Augustine Birrell

#24. I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

Betty White

#25. Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

Tom Selleck

#26. The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

Eric Ripert

#27. I'm still so incredibly tired. I lie there with my eyes still closed, just relaxing. I love that warm, fuzzy moment when I wake up and thoughts travel through my mind like a slow river. All my fears and worries are distant concerns that don't really bother me.

Gracie Strattyn

#28. It was as relaxing as being tickled.

Jeremy Clarkson

#29. She hoped the menfolk were having a nice, relaxing road trip in that souped-up man car they were riding in because as soon as they got to the Roberts' house, she was pawning off the woman formerly known as her sister onto the dude whose sperm had apparently turned her into a she-devil.

Julie James

#30. Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

Sylvia Earle

#31. I love living in L.A. It's quieter. It's much more relaxing. I'm living in a house for the first time ever. I have a backyard for the first time ever; a dog for the first time ever. So it's a lot of firsts, and I love it so much. It's just so different. It's a nice change of pace.

Sarah Hyland

#32. My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

Eminem

#33. I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

Ed Speleers

#34. Eat in a way that is relaxing and brings you joy. It doesn't take too much organizing and the results are profound.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#35. I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a divided island relaxing - with beauty and tranquillity in the north and a sense of fun, shallowness and celebration in the south.

James Blunt

#36. Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.

Norman Reedus

#37. I'd love to collect more tips, but you're supposed to be relaxing. Kissing me'll get you all rowdy.

M.Q. Barber

#38. Massage is very important for relaxing.

Andrew Tan

#39. Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Gordon Ramsay

#40. I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

Bill Gates

#41. Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.

Richard Matheson

#42. I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

Siri Hustvedt

#43. I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#44. This is so lame to say in a magazine, but I just grabbed some pink wallpaper. I find it to be a very relaxing color.

Paul Dano

#45. Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

B. Alan Wallace

#46. When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and when I began anchoring, I had short, stubbly pieces of hair. And trying to report in San Francisco with fog meant my hair swelled.

Soledad O'Brien

#47. Relaxing, intelligent feeling of being surrounded by generation after generation of thought.

Charlaine Harris

#48. Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

Peter Heller

#49. These people, who outside dog walking would not socialise, shared and supported each other in quite a special way. Rachel had never seen anything like it, but she had enjoyed their company, found it easy and relaxing.

Mary Grand

#50. and fulfillment come from engaging in activities that are productive and you enjoy doing. Contrary to popular belief, relaxing does not bring lasting joy.

Alex Foster

#51. It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.

Ella Henderson

#52. She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.

Tom Robbins

#53. Our possessions are dictating our free time. Sundays used to be for relaxing and eating, and now they're spent cleaning the garage. --pg55

Cristin Frank

#54. For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.

Tom Hodgkinson

#55. Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

Osho

#56. It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.

Christopher Hitchens

#57. The last time he'd had a ride this rough, there was a set of twins involved. "You okay?" Torin's voice in his military surplus PCU sounded distant. Flat. "Rough ride," he growled without relaxing his jaw. "You're thinking about the twins, aren't you?" "Might be." That had sounded more like Torin.

Tanya Huff

#58. I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

Eva Herzigova

#59. I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

Helen Sharman

#60. The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Seneca.

#61. Some days drawing is a real struggle. Hopefully, using the exercises in this book, it will become easier and more and more relaxing. Until that happens you may have to just accept the difficulty and battle through it - that too is a useful process. Build up your determination to succeed!

Cliff Wright

#62. When I was young, men like my father would often come home and put on their smoking jacket over their perfectly ordinary trousers, as a way of relaxing in the evening.

Julian Fellowes

#63. Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

Colin Hanks

#64. Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

Adam Carolla

#65. Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Julie Burchill

#66. When you travel so much, the best and most relaxing thing is to just sit on the couch and not move.

Serena Williams

#67. I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over.

Judd Apatow

#68. I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.

Tabatha Coffey

#69. Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

Diane Mott Davidson

#70. Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Arthur Smith

#71. A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.

Chuck Inglish

#72. My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

Olivia Thirlby

#73. The sky-like limpid eyes,
The circular infant's face,
The stiffness from spats to collar
Never relaxing into grace;
The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai and the forty years,
Showed only when the daylight fell
Level across the face
Of Brennbaum "The Impeccable".

Ezra Pound

#74. Danny shook his head, amusement relaxing the tense line of his mouth. 'Is that all you think about?'
'No! Sometimes I think about food. And beer. The color cyan. I'm a complex and multilayered flower, Danny.

Louisa Edwards

#75. Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.

Evangeline Lilly

#76. No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave.

Jayde Scott

#77. Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

Martha Graham

#78. You just make a game out of relaxing in the face of its melodrama. You simply learn how to release the tendency for getting drawn into the energy.

Michael A. Singer

#79. I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

Augusten Burroughs

#80. I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

Kate Bush

#81. She would have found it peaceful and relaxing here, but in every town they traveled through, people radiated anxiety under uneasy masks of optimism. Their dependency on magic had made them nearly helpless now that everything magical was corrupted.

Colleen Chen

#82. The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!

Louise Nurding

#83. I drove myself to the Emergency Room. That's a nice relaxing drive. "Noooo, after you. Merge-everybody merge."

Brian Regan

#84. To further encourage flow of credit to what we thought were stressed sectors, we extended regulatory forbearance to banks by relaxing the risk weights and provisioning norms governing bank loans to the stressed sectors. This

Duvvuri Subbarao

#85. I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.

Ray Winstone

#86. This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.

Chris O'Donnell

#87. Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#88. If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better.

Al Geiberger

#89. For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

Scotty McCreery

#90. You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

Remez Sasson

#91. Commuting in London is basically warfare. It's a constant campaign of claiming territory; inching forward; never relaxing for a moment. Because if you do, someone will step past you. Or step on you.

Sophie Kinsella

#92. And I realize that there is nothing to worry about without first wanting to be alive a certain way.
That is somewhat relaxing to think.

Sam Pink

#93. one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#94. You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

Jesse Schell

#95. Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

Eknath Easwaran

#96. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket. Restless,

Patrick Rothfuss

#97. I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.

Lindsay Lohan

#98. Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

#99. I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.

Martina Mcbride

#100. I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing ... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

Rio Ferdinand