As the summer begins to wind down it presents a chance for small business owners to reflect and take stock of their personal lives. In many cases the month of August is when small business owners try to get away and unplug. Maintaining a work-life balance and enjoying the small things is important to keep your mind fresh and your company’s most important asset at the top of their game. Here are 10 quotes to inspire you to enjoy these last few days of summer.

1. The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. - Natalie Babbitt

2. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. - Russel Baker

3. Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. - Sam Keen 

4. 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. - John Lubbock

5. Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. - Author Unknown

6. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. - Grenville Kleiser

7. Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us. - Paul Pitchford

8. A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. - Patricia Briggs

9. August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath

10. One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau

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