“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.” InspirationalMeanSometimesWisdomSuccessScienceLyingTimeWaterNatureTreeSkyListeningWasteSummerStressCloudsGrassRelaxRetirementRetiringWasting TimeRelaxationFloatsIdlenessRetiredJulyStress ManagementSummertimeFunny RetirementInspirational NatureSummer DaysRetirement WishesSummer LoveInspirational RetirementRetirement JokesUnder StressInspirational TreeShort SummerSummer GardenRetirement SpeechSky And CloudsResting And RelaxationCute SummerRetirement CardNo StressClouds SkySummer TimeTime To RelaxSky And Water Author:John Lubbock
“Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.” WayMeanDoeEnvironmentFrontsListeningAppreciateSticksTongueTastingLizards Author:William Shatner
“Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.” MeanSaidPlayWould BeBitsNiceListeningTerribleHappeningsBeing NiceShut UpNanniesGrannyExcursions Author:Terry Pratchett
“What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.” PeopleWellsMeanLongSaidListeningLong TimeBotherRobins Author:A. A. Milne
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.” PeopleIfsWorldWayHeartMeanPersonsWholeFeltRealizingMillionsTalentParticularBrokenListeningWhole WorldMysteriousSpokesReplacedUnimportantWindowpane Author:Michael Ende