Quotes for while I'm away

Since I'm going to be away for a while I'm leaving quotes for each day of my vacation. These are thoughts and ideas to reflect upon. Vacations are meant for relaxation and rejuvenation to recharge ones batteries so to speak.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
~Patricia Neal

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
~George Melton


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


If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
~Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)


It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
~Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)


In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
~James Carroll


Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.
~Dianne Hales

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
~Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)


Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
~Natalie Goldberg