Quotes About Rest

Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

The dead should be allowed to rest in peace.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

When you were playing cricket non-stop without a break, relentlessly, then these breaks really help you.

I don't mind being with a bunch of chicks. I'm around boys non-stop. I'm totally cool having a break from dudes.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

I'm normally getting glammed for my events and when I can give my skin a break, I do.

North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.

You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of dealing with it. You can rest from any thoughts if you put them down on paper.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

It's all about how you treat your body. It's proper rest and proper nutrition.

What's more important than your nutrition? What's more important than workin' out? It begins with gettin' a good night's sleep.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended.

When I come home, I need to feel instantly disconnected. In the rest of my life, I feel overstimulated. Here, I want things to be serene and unfussy, full of objects I love - but not too many of them.

On occasion, it's rough for me to sleep because I have a lot of things on my mind, so I'll need to get a little more sleep sometimes. I'm up late because I've got a lot of energy and a lot of things on my mind all the time, and I'm up early 'cause I've got things to do, so that's the only thing. That's how I like it; I like to be busy.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

Where, in what cemetery of the heavens, did the tender words of lovers rest when they loved no longer?

Vanity, complacency, and indolence were a curse, since bravery was an ascending slope and one could not rest on it. One must succeed in rising to every challenge except the ones that would destroy us needlessly.

When we become a Sabbath people, we give one of the most compelling witnesses to the world that we worship a God who desires our collective joy and good. We give concrete expression to an authentic faith that is working to deflate the anxious and destructive pride that supposes we have to 'do it all' by ourselves and through our own effort.

Sabbath rest is not about stopping, but about exchanging our restlessness for delight.