Posts by Ann Ruane

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
—Walter Kirn

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
—Seneca the Younger

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
—Alan Cohen

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
—Thomas Jefferson

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
—John Lubbock

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
—Fulton J. Sheen