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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

By Sir John Lubbock
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

By Sir John Lubbock
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

By Sir John Lubbock
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

By Sir John Lubbock
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

By Sir John Lubbock
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

By Sir John Lubbock
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

By Sir John Lubbock
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

By Sir John Lubbock
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.

By Sir John Lubbock
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

By Sir John Lubbock
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

By Sir John Lubbock
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

By Sir John Lubbock