Quotes About Rest

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Where you're not allowed to be woken up by any outside sources, you wake up naturally.

Your phone needs to recharge every night. Your laptop needs to recharge. Everything needs to recharge. Are you giving yourself space, time and effort to recharge?

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain they all have siestas, even businessmen.

When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.

If you don't dream, then you don't really sleep.

Soothing the exhaustionIn my soul, So I can fall back skyward, Safe in your arms, And survive to dream again.

I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.I'm cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.

where oh where, in what cemetery of the heavens do the tender words of lovers rest when they love no more? (Searching for author)

Love is a place of rest, a place of comfort and a place of peace and enjoyment.

Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.

You have been the pillowI lay my weary soul upon

To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

The surest law in the world is the Law of Compensation. Its Justice works continually. If you do a Service you get back a Service. If you do Nothing you get back Nothing. Mere existence is not Living. Into your twenty-four hours put Work and Play and Rest, but at no time be a Bystander.

anything that takes you away from the doctor and allows you to do nothing (hence gives nature a chance to do its work) will be beneficial.

Indeed, Georges Simenon, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, only wrote sixty days a year, with three hundred days spent "doing nothing." He published more than two hundred novels.

Or, if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time (assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours with sleep deprivation. Main course and dessert are separate.

Aportarán también su profundo y obstinado amor por el ocio, por la contemplación, por una vida solitaria y apartada, y el deseo de una época en el que haya un amplio espacio para los que no tienen ganas de hacer nada.

They haven't the mental equipment for leisure.

Let's all forsake, The Land of Wake, And break for the Land of Nod. Where we can try, To touch the sky, Or dance beneath the sod. A toll for the living, A toll for the lost, A toll for the wise ones, Who tally the cost, So let's escape, Due south of Wake, And make for the Land of Nod.

We all need a moratorium on misery now and then.

You don't so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death.