Day 1
Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
-- David McFadden
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Day 2
People laugh at new year's resolutions. But we could all use ten minutes in a chair followed by a humble prayer.
-- Unknown
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Day 3
The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Day 4
The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive. I see no difference in a chair and the man who sits in the chair, unless he's accomplishing something.
-- George Allen
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Day 5
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
-- Mary Heaton Vorse
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Day 6
Time was away and somewhere else,/ There were two glasses and two chairs/ And two people with one pulse.
-- Louis MacNeice
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Day 7
Why speak of time travel? We have a tried and proven method with us. Music moves us across centuries and continents without ever leaving our chairs.
-- Pam Brown
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Day 8
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
-- Malcolm Bradbury
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Day 9
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
-- Bern Williams
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Day 10
Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
-- Patty Sheehan
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Day 11
Every businessman over 50 should have a daily nap and nip a short nap after lunch and a relaxing highball before dinner.
-- Sara Murray Jordan
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Day 12
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
-- Bobby Jones
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Day 13
Happiness is the art of relaxation.
-- Maxwell Maltz
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Day 14
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.
-- Unknown
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Day 15
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
-- Rollo May
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Day 16
No matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you - a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.
-- Unknown
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Day 17
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
-- Plato
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Day 18
To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work, [otherwise] the result is either a copy of something you did before or reads like an army manual.
-- Kenneth H. Gordon, Jr.
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Day 19
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
-- Charles Barkley
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Day 20
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
-- Barbara Walters
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Day 21
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Day 22
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Day 23
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
-- May Sarton
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Day 24
A reactionary is a person who sits in his easy chair on Sunday, never thinking that tomorrow is Monday, but only that yesterday was Saturday.
-- Fredinand Pecora
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Day 25
All I want is a room somewhere,/ Far away from the cold night air;/ With one enormous chair . . ./ Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
-- Alan Jay Lerner
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Day 26
As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
-- Henry Beston
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Day 27
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
-- Shirley Conran
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Day 28
I sing the Sofa.
-- William Cowper
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Day 29
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
-- Albert Einstein
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Day 30
In The Lion Tamer School of Management you learn to keep them well fed and never let them know that all you've got is a chair and a whip.
-- Unknown
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Day 31
In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.
-- Virginia Graham
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