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Quotes About Rest

AHA!" Peacemaker suddenly declared. "Have an idea! Super good one! Going to take a NAP! Like a RAINWING! YAY!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Tsunami lashed her tail so hard she nearly fell off the branch. "General, may I take a nap? General, I need a papaya! General, my claws are tired! General, look, a butterfly! SOMEBODY IS GETTING STABBED IN THE FACE IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
She spent the rest of the morning flying out into the desert, chasing down a desert fox (who escaped into a hole and was kind of too cute to eat anyway),
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Every future that spirals out of every choice you and every other dragon make for the rest of your life? Can't you hear yourself? It's impossible, dearest. That way lies madness.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
But they were all too tired to kill anything, and after a moment the hippo splashed loudly into the river and submerged, probably congratulating itself on its impressive stealth.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
How am I supposed to look at his SMUG PRETENTIOUS FACE every single day for the rest of my life?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
uno sonno la patata.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.
~ Unknown
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.
~ Unknown
Even warriors put their spears down on sundays.
~ Tupac Shakur
A man's pillow is his best medicine
~ Patrick O'Brian
Getting your ass away from the gym is probably the number one thing you can do to start kicking your gains up a notch.
~ Unknown
So We'll Go No More a-Roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.
~ Unknown
Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.
~ Unknown
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
~ Paul Theroux
back to my hotel, where it was always mealtime.
~ Paul Theroux
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's the oasis, said the camel driver. Well, why don't we go there right now? the boy asked. Because we have to sleep.
~ Paulo Coelho
The bow is life: the source of all energy. The arrow will leave one day. The target is a long way off. But the bow will stay with you, and you must know how to look after it. It requires periods of inaction - a bow that is always armed and braced loses its strength. Therefore, allow it to rest, to recover its firmness; then, when you draw the bow-string, the bow will be content, with all its strength intact.
~ Paulo Coelho
He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one's nerve centers against a tree trunk. For hours he discoursed on the physical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants.
~ Paulo Coelho
To generate enough lactic acid to promote fat loss, you have to extend your sets to about a minute, then rest for a minute, then move on to your next set. (Nobody said it was easier than aerobics.)
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Perform your exercises in a circuit. Allow at least a few minutes of rest between the sets; do not rush if your focus is strength. Compress the rest periods to favor endurance, muscular and cardiovascular, over strength. Do not practice exercises which require great coordination, e.g. the bent press, if you choose brief rest periods.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Do not be afraid to push into slight overtraining and then back off with lighter workouts. As a Lithuanian saying goes, "A river with a dam has more power.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
and when he was weary he lay down upon his land and he slept and the health of the earth spread into his flesh and he was healed of his sickness.
~ Pearl S. Buck