Daily Inspiration
Play
It is better to play than do nothing.
—Confucius
Breathing
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
—Walter Kirn
Mind
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
—Seneca the Younger
Virtue
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
—Alan Cohen
Music
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
—Thomas Jefferson
Rest
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
Self-Commendation
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
Heart to Help
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
—Abraham Lincoln
Praise or Criticism
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
—John Wooden
Gentle
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
—Frank A. Clark