Quotes About Rest

He will provide, protect, and shower grace in abundance as we give our burdens, the heaviness of our jobs or family situations, to the one who is eternally faithful and true. When we do, the Spirit will show us what is our part, what is God's part, and what is others' part so we don't try to do everything. As we give the Lord our deepest burdens, we will know him more deeply and grow in thankfulness. Then we will find rest for our souls.

All he knew was that the rage was still there, eating inside him, not with the slow stealth of a cancer, but with the rapid, careless ravening of a weasel gnawing at his entrails, or the constant alimentary torment that drives on the shark to his incessant feeding until only death gives him rest.

I may say that we have had somewhat too much of "the gospel of work." It is time to preach the gospel of relaxation.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

I believe I see what the week is for: it is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday.

Sunday funday!

You ever take a nap so good that you thought you missed the school bus. But it's Sunday… and you're 32.

I hope very soon to be better, for I have removed my Family into the Country, to my old Habitation at Braintree, and have determined to shake off a little of that Load of public and private Care which has for some Time oppressed me. If I had not, I should soon have shaken off this mortal Body.

I rest in rainbows and I nest in clouds I'd live in raindrops if only I knew how

Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.

To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.

As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.

Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity.

Every paid worker, no matter where on the economic scale, expects a day off a week and a vacation a year. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Weekend — the frosting on the cupcake of the week.

My weekend plans — to move just enough so no one thinks I'm dead.

Better days are coming. They are called Saturday and Sunday.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. It is no season in which to wander the world as if one were the wind blowing aimlessly along the streets without a place to rest, without food, and without time meaning anything to one, just as time means nothing to the wind.

hiding in my winter cocoon not coming out again until June

Winter is simple no clutter, no color a blanket of snow reminds us to rest

In Winter, Mother Nature dims the lights, sleeps late, hides from the world, and regenerates. Winter is the hangover of seasons.

No sooner do I get interested than bang! goes my sleep, and I have to stop a week or ten days, during which my ideas get all cold again.

A Taurus works hard… and sleeps harder.