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Quotes About Rest

Link, there hasn't been time for me to give you much of a formal Jewish education. But you might remember from Sunday school some of the stories of the Old Testament. God forgives us—and by doing that, God shows us how to forgive each other. Even more important, those of us who've been forgiven spend the rest of our lives trying to be worthy of that forgiveness.
~ Gordon Korman
Since we have not understood that rest is a necessity, we have perverted its meaning, substituting for the rest that God first demonstrated things called leisure or amusement. These do not bring any order at all to the private world. Leisure and amusement may be enjoyable, but they are to the private world of the individual like cotton candy to the digestive system. They provide a momentary lift, but they will not last.
~ Gordon MacDonald
Hier ruht er, wenn der Wind nicht weht!
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I shut my eyes and she was again the same as she used to be: she was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.
~ Graham Greene
She was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.
~ Graham Greene
As very often in our discipline, old and seemingly certain statements rest forever without further verification
~ Graham Hancock
dormez bien.' They
~ Graham Masterton
Odd how food and water and a clean body—and a few moments of rest—lead me into philosophy.
~ Greg Bear
The moment between breaths Is the balance of the Force. Between life and death. Rest and action. Serenity and passion. Hope and despair. —
~ Greg Rucka
I fell onto the bed and was asleep in seconds. It was a nourishing, dreamless sleep, but I woke after four hours, and I was too alert, too restless, to find sleep again.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what had in order to get what you wanted? People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
~ Gregory Maguire
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
~ Mary Lou Retton
I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.
~ Poppy Delevingne
Every few weeks, I'd really be worn down. The doctor said just take time off, but it became apparent that the exercise you need to be a top-level athlete brought the symptoms on.
~ Tucker Halpern
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.
~ Roy Keane
When I'm with my parents, that's the place I can unplug. That's the place I can shut down and not worry about work or what's going on. I go home and hang out with them. I sleep more there than any place else ever.
~ Carrie Underwood
My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'
~ Bernie Mac
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If anything kept me awake at night it would be worrying that there wouldn't be enough time to have a nap the next day.
~ Joe Lycett
If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.
~ Robert Green
Gujarat is a pro-business state, where civil society organisations are comfortable with working to make sure that business does not suffer. Large parts of the rest of India, for better or worse, are very different.
~ Abhijit Banerjee