The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

I became a beach bum.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I have no trouble sleeping.

I like to take it easy.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it’s in the blood.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I like to let things breathe.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

I love the sea.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Going home helps the content.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.