Quotes About Rest

But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic. [...] I don't want to be a burden[...]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make—make a difference in the world.

Adesso prentiti un po' di sonno, disse il nano, con quella che Tas definiva la Voce di Suo Nonno.

Tanis at first wondered what the mage was studying, then realized it was his spellbook. It is the curse of the magi that they must constantly study and recommit their spells to memory every day. The words of magic flame in the mind, then flicker and die when the spell is cast. Each spell burns up some of the magician's physical and mental energy until he is totally exhausted and must rest before he can use his magic again.

Of all the joys which are slowly abandoning me, sleep is one of the most precious, though one of the most common, too. A man who sleeps but little and poorly, propped on many a cushion, has ample time to meditate upon this particular delight.

I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.

Go home, old woman, I'm tired and you're annoying me.

Sometimes nothing is the very best thing one can do.

The cultivation of mental rest, or surrender, is like eating healthy food. It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really.  Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash.  The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food.  It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

There are certain winter days when bed and bath seem to be the only two tolerable places in the world.

Let us go hence and rest; she will not love. She shall not hear us if we sing hereof, Nor see love's ways, how sore they are and steep. Come hence, let be, lie still; it is enough. Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep; And though she saw all heaven in flower above,              She would not love!

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Who said nights were for sleep?

That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something.

sometimes I'm just up the whole night wishing I weren't. (I do recommend prayer at such times, because often they mean something is in need of resolving.

Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.

That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something. She

Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.

La tierra, cansada después de tantos siglos de producir plantas, animales y de dar abrigo al hombre, pediría al Padre poder descansar.

One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.

Take all the time you need.

Where are you going on vacation?" "Nowhere. I'm going to read. I love reading.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.