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Quotes About Rest

I don't look at screens for two hours before I go to bed,
~ Johann Hari
Sleep is a really important balance of many, many neurotransmitters, and if you artificially…pump up one, it changes the balance of that sleep.
~ Johann Hari
When we sleep, our minds start to identify connections and patterns from what we've experienced during the day. This is one of the key sources of our creativity—it's why narcoleptic people, who sleep a lot, are significantly more creative.
~ Johann Hari
But if you only break away from distraction into rest—if you don't replace it with a positive goal you are striving toward—you will always be pulled back to distraction sooner or later. The more powerful path out of distraction is to find your flow.
~ Johann Hari
Sleep deprivation damages memory as well.
~ Johann Hari
Many of the things we need to do are so obvious they are banal: slow down, do one thing at a time, sleep more. But even though at some level we all know them to be true, we are in fact moving in the opposite direction: toward more speed, more switching, less sleep.
~ Johann Hari
Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
~ Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
O'er all the hilltopsIs quiet now,In all the treetopsHearest thouHardly a breath;The birds are asleep in the trees:Wait; soon like theseThou too shalt rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Über allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh, In allen Wipfeln Spürest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Vögelein schweigen in Walde. Warte nur, balde Ruhest du auch.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy, He soon grows fond of unconditioned rest;
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
~ Jose Saramago
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
~ Lucretius
What I like doing best is Nothing.
~ A. A. Milne
Eight hours of sleep would be amazing. That would be the best. If I could just figure out that part of my life, it would be great.
~ Ben Schwartz
Life is all about finding your place. All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. He'll be fine. Like the rest of us. We just need some faith.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.
~ Robert Breault
I never needed much sleep. But I've always said that is a function of do you enjoy life.
~ Donald Trump
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
~ Johnny Mathis
I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!
~ Madonna Ciccone
Always try to understand and educate yourselves on the reasons why Allah has given you life, do that part first then enjoy the rest of life and chill out.
~ Shahid Afridi
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins