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A vacation is where you get to do nothing if you want

• A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. Robert Orben
• Rest and renewal

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Taking a vacation is a necessity in today’s busy world

• 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. William James
• Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today’s world it has become a necessity.
• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important. Bertrand Russell
• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation. Clarence Day
• Busyness

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A vacation lets you reset yourself

• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. May Sarton
• Rest and renewal

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A vacation lets you recover from work

• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking. Earl Wilson

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A vacation lets you sharpen the saw

• Sharpen your saw. How? Exercise, meditate, journal, spend time with loved ones, go on vacation, play, dance, enjoy your hobbies. Brian Johnson

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Much of the pleasure of a vacation lies in the anticipation …

• A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
• Schedule short, frequent vacations; studies show that the anticipation leading up to the time off is one of the best parts about taking a vacation. Marelisa Fabrega
• Anticipation

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… and the memory

• A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. Robert Brault
• A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
• Memory

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More benefits of vacations

• To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Charles Horton Cooley
• When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. Aimee Friedman, Sea Change
• Research shows that material purchases only boost your happiness levels temporarily. Experiences bring more overall joy. Enjoy safari holidays, learn a language, join a dancing group. Richard Carlson Ph.D

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Some go on vacation but find it hard to relax

• Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one….This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.  Elizabeth Gilbert
• Relaxation

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Some argue vacations are over-rated

• A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. Robert Brault
• A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
• I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn’t. Craig Ferguson
• Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. Mason Cooley
• Vacation: A period during which people find out where to stay away from next year.
• No vacation goes unpunished. Karl Hakkarainen

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Vacations can be exhausting

• No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. Elbert Hubbard
• A holiday is something that turns someone who’s tired into someone who’s exhausted.
• No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. Elbert Hubbard
• Tiredness and fatigue

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Vacations can be most expensive

• Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands — and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. Sam Ewing
• Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
• Vacation: A change of routine that makes you feel good enough to go back to work and poor enough to have to.
• A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices. Hal Chadwicke

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Doing nothing on a vacation is some people’s idea of hell

• Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. Margaret Laurence
• I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. Robertson Davies
• I hate vacations. There’s nothing to do.  David Mamet
• I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? Philip Johnson
• I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. Dustin Hoffman
• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell. George Bernard Shaw

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You plan your vacation, why not your life?

• I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. Jim Rohn
• If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• People have more options than they think they do. But most people spend more time planning their vacations than thinking about what they want to do with their lives. Bob McDonald
• It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer’s vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives. Patricia Fripp
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Live every day as if it’s the last day of your vacation

• Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living. Sydney Smith
• Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. Leo Tolstoy
• Embrace life

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Make your vocation your vacation

• When you like your work every day is a holiday. Frank Tyger
• The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Mark Twain
• It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do what you love

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Take time away from others for reflection in addition to a vacation

• Geshe Michael Roach also talks about the importance of taking two weeks off in addition to normal vacation to really check in to silence and what the universe is looking to bring to the world through you. He says go somewhere alone with NO distractions. Bring two weeks of food and just hang out with your journal—no TV, books, just quiet. Get quiet, tune in, and follow the inspiration. Brian Jonhson
• Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.  Maya Angelou
• I would like you to relate with people, to love, to move in millions of relationships — because they enrich — and yet remain capable of closing your doors and sometimes having a holiday from all relationship… so that you can relate with your own being also. Rajneesh
• Reflection

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Life is not a vacation but an education

• The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. Henry Drummond
• Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love. Barbara Jordan
• Life is a school

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Laughter is a vacation

• Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle
• Laughter

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A change is a vacation

• Change is as good as a holiday
• With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. William Lloyd George
• Change

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College is a vacation

• College is the longest vacation you will ever take. Dan Indante and Karl Marks

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Freedom from the mind is the best vacation of all

• Basically, you’re not alone in there. There are two distinct aspects of your inner being. The first is you, the awareness, the witness, the center of your willful intention; and the other is that which you watch. The problem is, the part that you watch never shuts up. If you could get rid of that part, even for a moment, the peace and serenity would be the nicest vacation you ever had. Michael Singer
• The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind. Jack Adam Weber
• .. a vacation for the mind… Dave Barry
• Freedom,  Incessant thinking

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Mothers never get a true vacation

• A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it. Marcelene Cox
• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Vacations are for the beach

• We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. Erma Bombeck
• The beach

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• A family vacation is when you go away with the people you need to get away from.   Alfred E. Neuman
• A holiday is something that turns someone who’s tired into someone who’s exhausted.
• A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card.  Farmer’s Almanac
• A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. Robert Orben
• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking. Earl Wilson
• A vacation should be just long enough that you’re boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
• After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.  Kenneth Grahame
• All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. Cathy Ladman
• Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’  Steven Wright
• Camp: A place in the country where a mother sends her children for her vacation.  
• Elle: Did you see him? He’s probably still scratching his head. Paulette: Yeah which must be a nice vacation for his balls.   Jennifer Coolidge
• For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks but a divorce is something you always have. Woody Allen
• The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.
• Holiday :  something that turns someone who’s tired into someone who’s exhausted.
• Honeymoon: The vacation a man takes before starting to work for a new boss.
• I love my job only when I’m on vacation.
• I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.  Henny Youngman
• I understand that many newlyweds are vacationing here (Niagara Falls)  I suppose seeing the falls was their second biggest disappointment.   Oscar Wilde
• I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday; I’ll tell you what – never again.   Tim Vine
• If I were a medical man I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.   Bertrand Russell
• It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.  Mark Twain
• It’s pretty much a bunch of people who don’t live in a trailer park yet like to vacation there.   Andi Smith
• Just for the record, we never broke up. We just took a fourty year vacation.  The Eagles
• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.  Camille Paglia
• My dad is Irish and my mum is Iranian, which meant that we spent most of our family holidays in Customs. Patrick Monahan
• No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.   Frank  …Kin’ Hubbard
• Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills. S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman
• Once again we come to the holiday season – a deeply religious time that each of us observes in his own way by going to the mall of his choice.   Dave Barry
• Personally, I’ve always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it’s coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it’s a small consolation, but I’d have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.  Craig Wilson
• Promised some people this week that I would water their plants and take care of their animals while they want on vacation = bad idea  the people are farmers.   Janine DiTullio
• Religion is basically guilt with different holidays.   Cathy Ladman
• Summer Camps: Those places where little boys go for mother’s vacation.
• The main thing I want this holiday season is for someone to wake me when it’s over.
• The only problem with politicians taking two week vacations every year is it’s about 50 weeks too short.  Jarod Kintz
• The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.
• There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. Robert Benchley
• Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.
• Vacation, I go there in my mind. Especially when I’m at work, getting paid for it.  Jarod Kintz
• Vacation: A change of routine that makes you feel good enough to go back to work and poor enough to have to.
• Vacation: A period during which people find out where to stay away from next year.
• Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands — and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. Sam Ewing
• Vacation: Where you take the family to get away from it all only to find it there too.
• We had a longer holiday than usual this year because the school was closed for altercations.  
• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations  – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.   Rodney Dangerfield
• What is grey, has four legs and a trunk.  A mouse going on holiday
• When packing for a vacation take half as much clothing and twice as much money.   Stitzer’s Vacation Principle
• When properly administered vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you’re away and get nothing done there’s another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.   Daniel B. Luten

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