Quotes About Rest

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Warte nur, balde ruhest du auch

Der Schlaf, den wir ersehnen, der vollkommene Schlaf, ist traumlos. Wir werden von Träumen heimgesucht, sobald wir gelernt haben, uns zu erinnern und Reue zu empfinden

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Today, many people write about burnout. Why didn't Jesus burn out? I think the answer rests in three simple principles: Jesus measured all investments of time against his purpose, he took time for solitude with the Father, and he didn't try to do too much.

We liberate children not by making them work for our love but by letting them rest in it.

The dust shall never be thy bed: A pillow for thee will I bring, Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

I love sleep because it's like a time machine to breakfast.

Purrs-day, Feline Friday, Caturday... Dog-Tired Monday

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where...

Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.

Changing to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday should always be followed by a national holiday on Monday.

Calm on the bosom of thy God, Young spirit! rest thee now...

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Coffee, and I'm a warrior Tea, a philosopher Wine, a lover Water, a napper.

Let exercise alternate with rest.

A family is a resting-place from worldly cares...

I'm so tired, my tired is tired.

Keep temperate diet, use moderate exercise, observe seasonable and set hours for rest: let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy repose: Then hath thy body the best temper; then hath thy soul the least encumbrance; then no noise shall disturb thine ear, no object shall divert thine eye.

nourish the nighttime healing fairies with gratitude and faith and sleep

For my own part I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better... To lie there careless of everything, quiet and warm, and with no weight upon the mind... to watch the soft shadows come and go upon the ceiling... not only to be a lotus-eater but to know that it was one's duty to be a lotus-eater.

...You 'll find, where'er you roam, That marble floors and gilded walls Can never make a home. But every house where Love abides, And Friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home-sweet-home: For there the heart can rest.

All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.

The world slept, and it was like the sleep of death.