Quotes About Rest

It is important to understand that the duration of exercise matters far more than does the intensity of exercise with respect to the goal of enhancing fatigue resistance in the brain. What counts is not how hard the muscles are working but rather how long the brain is required to stay focused on the task at hand. In fact, research has shown that the brain can be fatigued at rest in a way that increases fatigue resistance and physical endurance.

Today sucks. I'm goin' back to bed.

I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.

It's good to be home," Iris said, putting her head on Albert's shoulder. "We've been gone so long." "We are all home," Albert said. "And here we will stay.

That's why I can sleep anywhere now.

Do people sleep a lot because they're tired or because they want to escape from something?

In any event he had to sleep in the tube that night

He wanted to put his head down on the desk, lie still and rest, only the form of rest he needed did not exist, greater than sleep, greater than death, the rest of having never lived.

We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.—Henry James

The audacity of hope! I still remember my grandmother, singing in the house, 'There's a bright side somewhere Ã¢â'¬Â¦ don't rest till you find it Ã¢â'¬Â¦.'" "That's right!" "The audacity of hope!

I held my mother's hand, making sure she was comfortable before she settled in to rest. Then I went back to the hotel room and cried.

You are far too lovely, my dear, for there to be any need for you to be a 'bluestocking'. I have no wish to be that. At the same time Papa always said that a pretty face is a good introduction, but a man wants something more if he to enjoy the company of one woman for the rest of his life.

Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee.

As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing...he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never could have discussed it, that everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.

everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.

He] has about one idea in a year, and gets so worn out from it he has to go lie down.

I was exhausted but also for the first time in weeks I felt sleepiness, that rare, delicious liqueur, soaking into my body like blotter paper.

Ancorammo la barca al riparo dal vento, entrammo nella baracca, ci cambiammo e preparammo la cena. Il nostro sollievo si espresse in una serie di battute scherzose, a spese l'uno dell'altro. Mangiammo in silenzio, andammo a letto e dormimmo come orsi d'inverno.

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man's physician. Shakespeare

We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy.

Getting plenty of sleep is the first step toward good dream recall.

Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream; the city had one of the lowest literacy rates in the country, and along with illiteracy went a lack of morals.

It's a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more golden eggs and wind up sick or exhausted, unable to produce any at all; or when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.