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Quotes About Rest

Once he began to speak, the sound of it was so compelling that you focused all your thoughts upon the words, and not upon the man who uttered them. It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.
~ Gerard Butler
I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?
~ Gerard de Nerval
Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?
~ Gerard de Nerval
And I have asked to beWhere no storms come,Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,And out of the swing of the sea.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)
~ German proverb
See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!
~ Giacomo Puccini
tomb, and now He invites everyone who is tired and weary and sick to come that he may set you free from all of it. As we sing, will you come and give your heart and soul and body to the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ Gilbert Morris
Asleep? All the morning?
~ Gillian Cross
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.
~ Gillian Flynn
Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.
~ Gina Greenlee
Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your desk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.
~ Gina Greenlee
At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.
~ Gina Greenlee
The week before the marathon, sleep well. If normally you "get by" with five hours but require seven, make sure you get seven every night. The sleep you get the week leading up to the marathon is more important than the night before. The night before, you probably won't sleep well due to anxiety, excitement and anticipation.
~ Gina Greenlee
Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see.
~ Gina Greenlee
La Presidenta había sido muy gráfica explicando con metáforas deportivas por qué iban a descansar de los hombres por una temporada. Dijo que era como cuando en el béisbol había jugadores que se quedaban en el dog out. Las mujeres necesitaban que los hombres se quedaran en él temporalmente, porque aquel partido lo tenían que pichar, batear, cachar y correr las mujeres.
~ Gioconda Belli
Anche in questo siamo uguali. L'unica cosa che ci fa differenti è che tu, quando hai finito di parlare con loro, hai la possibilità di sentirti stanco. Puoi andare a casa e spegnere la tua mente e ogni sua malattia. Io no. Io di notte non posso dormire, perché il mio male non riposa mai." "E allora tu che cosa fai, di notte, per curare il tuo male?" "Io uccido...
~ Giorgio Faletti
L'amore fa il resto. Quello che a volte illude ma che non si compra e non si vende. Mai.
~ Giorgio Faletti
Le comari a poco a poco si erano diradate, e come il paese stesso andava addormentandosi, si udiva il mare che russava li vicino, in fondo alla straduccia, e ogni tanto sbuffava, come uno che si volti e rivolti nel letto.
~ Giovanni Verga
Sleep is the price we pay for learning
~ Giulio Tononi
Once a week, beginning at sunset on Friday and until sunset on Saturday, the family had to pause. A Jewish merchant had explained the Sabbath to Agios already, back in Egypt. No devout Hebrew could work or travel on that day. If they were near a temple, the family went there. If no temple was available, they prayed where they were. When
~ Glenn Beck
You can lose a lot when you travel too much.
~ Gloria Naylor
All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
~ Gloria Swanson
Right fights while wrong rests.
~ Goa Kerle