Quotes About Rest

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

There is always time for a nap.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the only time I can be alone. Slightly less than an hour each weekday when no one makes demands.

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

He realized that there was a point to that ungainly empty area between the human shoulder and chin: it was the perfect place to rest an infant.

I have nothing to fear and here my story ends. My troubles are all over, and I am at home.

Well, don´t cry about it, mother,´ said I, for the tears were gushing from her eyes, ´there, let that kiss efface the one I gave Eliza; don´t abuse her any more, and set your mind at rest; for I´ll promise never to - that is, I´ll promise to - to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of´.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.