Quotes About Rest

Wouldn't it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?" Ildiko mused after a moment. "I'll sleep long and hard when I'm dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.

Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

Be contented with the things of the present. The cows and the dogs are, and so are all animals; and that is what makes them animals. So if man rests content with the present and gives up all search into the beyond, mankind will have to go back to the animal plane again.

God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.

I have done my plowing:I have sown my seed.Again I have time to sit and read my books.

Retirement: World's longest coffee break.

Dear sleep, I know we had problems when I was younger ... but I love you now.

My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.

En verdes pastos me hará descansar; junto a tranquilas aguas me conducirá. Confortará mi alma; me guiará por sendas de justicia por amor a Su nombre.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

The zombie is the angle. You want people to get to the rest of what you just said? Embrace the zombie. We live in a society of self-absorbed, unaware drones desensitized to the suffering of others.

I told people I was taking a gap year, but the truth was that I wanted to do nothing, absolutely nothing, for as long as possible, maybe for the rest of my life.

Today has gone on long enough.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us. Charlotte Joko Beck

The rougher I treated my body, the more and more empty my head became. For the first time in several years, I could go to sleep and wake up feeling refreshed.

Yesterday I sat under the hickory tree in the front yard. It's the only place where I find rest and just feel fine. I know fine isn't a lot, but it's rare for me these days. Even when I'm happy, there is something in between me and whatever good news comes my way. It's like eating a butterscotch still sealed in the wrapper.

By the time I covered myself with the crisp sheet and soft blanket, I was tired and ready to close the book on this insane day.

Surviving" There are days when the fear of death is as ubiquitous as light. It illuminates everything. Without it, I might not have noticed this ladybird beetle, bright as a drop of blood on the window's white sill. Her head no bigger than a period, her eyes like needle points, she has stopped for a moment to rest, knees locked, wing covers hiding the delicate lace of her wings. As the fear of death, so attentive to everything living, comes near her, the tiny antennae stop moving.