Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.

I think, for me, the main thing is feeling comfortable.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is a more complex phenomenon. Once you have become confident that the body listens to you, you will have a new trust in yourself. Now even the mind can listen to you. It will take a little longer with the mind, but it happens.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

I try to schedule at least one day a week to catch up, to feel like I'm breathing again. I take vitamins. I have a treadmill and weights at home, but I prefer walking outside, just kind of breathing and letting it all go. I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.