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Quotes About Rest

Love turns work into rest.
~ Teresa of Avila
For a moment the highlander lay quietly and studied the room in silent leisure, allowing the sleep to disperse and his rested mind to awaken fully.
~ Terry Brooks
When he died, he told himself, he would have all eternity to rest. If he wanted to live, if he wanted others to live, it was going to take effort.
~ Terry Goodkind
It was like rising slowly out of a pink cloud, or a magnificent dream which, try as you might, drains out of your mind as the daylight shuffles in, leaving a terrible sense of loss; nothing, you know instinctively, nothing you're going to experience for the rest of the day is going to be one half as good as that dream.
~ Terry Pratchett
Look into his mind, his universe. We may think it's sick, but for him, this place is a little slice of paradise. A place where the dead are laid to rest. Just the place the Dominator would come. He walks around here and probably imagines a whole harem of sleeping women right beneath his feet.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Tears must not fall on dead. Otherwise spirit not able to rest. Janna will be bound to earth by tears, and spirit will return again and again to owner of tears, until matter is resolved.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
Nonhuman animals instinctively know that stopping is the best way to get healed.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
shortest distance possible, finally reaching the bottom, the point of perfect rest.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
guess sometimes the world's too much to live with and a body sort of has to turn away from it to rest.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Stress accumulates in our body. The way we eat, drink, and live takes its toll on our well-being. Lying down and bringing gentle awareness to our breath, we can realize rest and recovery for our physical body.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.
~ Julie Bowen
The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book down to take a rest. You can't just be lighting firecrackers all the time.
~ Sheila Heti
Everybody is different. Some players need a lot of rest and just be at home.
~ Vincent Kompany
I have bad days, days when I just don't want to do anything. Just kind of want to lay in bed.
~ Jeff Bauman
I'm a bit tired of so much football, so much football. I want to enjoy my family a bit. I'm very keen to stop and get a bit of calm.
~ Carlos Tevez
Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.
~ Jamie Moyer
Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.
~ Tommy Chong
Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
~ David O. Selznick
I'm hopefully in bed and asleep by 10:30. I'm usually yawning by 7:30, 8. You go to the gym and push yourself so you're knocked out by nighttime.
~ Kenny Stills
Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.
~ Hal Sutton
We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.
~ Matthew Walker
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
~ James P. Hoffa