Quotes About Rest

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

Peace reigned in silence, inside and out, in isolation and exhaustion.

This is where our bones will rest, humps and ripples in the sand. Then, one day, even those signs will be gone. We've reached the shore, where Hood awaits and no one else. A journey of the spirit as much as of the flesh. I welcome the end to both.

When subjects go to sleep later in their body temperature cycles, they actually sleep less, even though they have been awake longer.

I'm dreaming of a month of Sundays.

Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

His body had become merely a numb vessel to which his mind could return and rest, whenever astral travel became too tiring.

If you're only using your bed for sleep, then don't bother waking up.

trainees would improve their rate of gaining if they would halve their training volume per workout, double the rest days between workouts, get serious about delivering real effort in the reduced training time, and pay more attention to ensuring that sufficient calories and nutrients are consumed each day.

We can agree with what the gospel says about our sinfulness without becoming overwhelmed by guilt and shame. Further, we do not have to prove that we are victims rather than victimizers out of a desperate effort to persuade ourselves that we are righteous. We have Christ's righteousness already. We can rest in this.

There was a sort of invisible, one-way barrier between that young woman and the rest of the world ; everything passed through it to her but very little passed out.

All in all, the dead are a whole lot less trouble than the living

Pace yourself in your work and commitments. Nobody is indispensable. And when you get sick, honor your body by giving it the rest and medical attention that it's asking for.

Your fatigue is telling you it's time to lighten the inner load.