When you can’t be honest with people, you can’t ever relax with them.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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About Dorothy Koomson

Portrait of Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson (born 1971 in London) is a contemporary British novelist of Ghanaian descent. She has been described as "Britain's biggest selling black author of adult fiction".

More quotations from Dorothy Koomson

Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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More quotations tagged with “relaxation”

When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

—Carlos Castaneda in The Teachings of Don Juan

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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

—Sylvia Plath

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Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

—Satchel Paige

Working in the garden… gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

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