Quotes About Rest

All men seek peace first of all with themselves. That is necessary, because we do not naturally find rest even in our own being. We have to learn to commune with ourselves before we can communicate with other men and with God.

Let there be a place somewhere in which you can breathe naturally, quietly, and not have to take your breath in continuous short gasps. A place where your mind can be idle, and forget its concerns, descend into silence, and worship the Father in secret.

No, thought Oedipa, sad. As if their home cemetery in some way still did exist, in a land where you could somehow walk, and not need the East San Narciso Freeway, and bones still could rest in peace, nourishing ghosts of dandelions, no one to plow them up. As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

I used to worry about you, Zoyd, but I see I can rest easy now the Vaseline of youth has been cleared from your life's lens by the mild detergent solution of time, in its passing. . . 

Più vicino a te, o mio divano.

asleep. He fell asleep during Nibelungen.

Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's so delicious.

I am tired, blissfully tired. Do you suppose that daisies feel blissfully tired when they shut for the night and the dews descend upon them?

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Edgar Bergen

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

I don't need to rest in this life. I can rest when I die. Then nobody's going to bother me.

Sleep hath no enemy like an unrelenting cat.

Ante todo, recuerde honrarse a sí mismo. Si está exhausto, satisfaga sus propias necesidades antes de tratar de ayudar a otras personas o al mundo que le rodea.

One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.

I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.

You can rest with me until somebody comes to get you. We will not say anything. We can rest.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

When you complete a certain task, do not quickly jump to the next one. You are likely to feel motivated at that point and feel energetic enough to finish off with the next task in line; however, do you remember the lesson on willpower? It depletes if you exhaust yourself and when you are exhausted, your inclination towards temptations increases. To keep this from happening, when you complete a task,

The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

When you sing lead in a band, it's an exhausting business. Just the breathing involved. Singing song after song is enough to knock most people on their ass. It's an incredible amount of oxygen you're going through. So we would do shows and we'd come off stage and I'd go to bed!

Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature.

Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

that God "giveth his beloved sleep" (Ps. 127:2).

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.