Harper Reed Quotes

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.

Days off always help. Even if people don't like it when they give you a day off, you've got to take a day off because sometimes you've got to clear your mind.

I think everyone needs to take a few breaks.

As much as we adore what we do and we're eternally grateful, everyone needs a break sometimes. Everyone needs a few days just to breathe.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Like every normal working person, you get tired and need time out.

It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

I always try to have a vacation.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Resting for me is fitness training.

I need some downtime before I go to sleep.

It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.