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Quotes About Rest

La cama blanquecina nadando en la oscuridad. El cansancio arrastrándose por su cuerpo
~ Clarice Lispector
Os corpos se distinguem uns dos outros em relação ao movimento e ao repouso, à velocidade e à lentidão e não em relação à substância".
~ Clarice Lispector
One night, I'd only just lain down," she told him, "when one of the legs of the bed collapsed throwing me to the ground. After an irate movement, because I wasn't at least sleepy enough to go without comfort, I suddenly thought: why a whole bed and not a broken one? I lay down and was soon asleep...
~ Clarice Lispector
Escrevo e assim me livro de mim e posso então descansar.
~ Clarice Lispector
Pero el afecto necesita un reposo del que la política no dispone.
~ Unknown
Pearl…every night I pray to God that you can rest. Seeing what this has done to you….it hurts me more than any man can bear. I'd give you anything—everything—if only I knew you'd take it.
~ Claudio Sanchez
One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
~ Cleveland Amory
There are at least 365 days in a year. You can do 300 days working with pay, 60 days working and praying without pay, and 5 days of rest
~ Unknown
There is nothing wrong about laziness. Take time to relax. Laziness is only despising if it becomes a habit.
~ Unknown
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
~ Colette
I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest.
~ Colette
This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.
~ Colin Dexter
Changing, it rests.
~ Heraclitus
The living, though they yearn for consummation of their fate, need rest, and in their turn leave children to fulfil their doom.
~ Heraclitus
She comes not when noon is on the roses - Too bright is day. She comes not to the soul till it reposes From work and play. But when night is on the hills, and the great voices Roll in from sea, By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight She comes to me.
~ Herbert Trench
The conclusion, therefore, is that of Augustine, who said that the heart of man was created for God and that it cannot find rest until it rests in his Father's heart. Hence all men are really seeking after God, as Augustine also declared, but they do not all seek Him in the right way, nor at the right place.
~ Herman Bavinck
God's will is one with his being, his wisdom, goodness, and all his other perfections. For that reason the human heart and head can rest in that will, for it is the will of an almighty God and a gracious father, not that of a blind fate, incalculable chance, or dark force of nature. His sovereignty is one of unlimited power, but also of wisdom and grace. He is both king and father at one and the same time.
~ Herman Bavinck
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
~ Herman Melville
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~ Herodotus
Of this bad world the loveliest and the bestHas smiled and said "Good Night," and gone to rest.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Away from the front, where the supply lines ran, there were rest camps and first aid stations, and even patches of farmland. Often at that time of year you could hear skylarks over the fields. Soldiers remarked how strange it was that the birds should be there, but in fact the birds had been there for centuries. The really strange thing was that the soldiers were there.
~ Hilary McKay
To do nothing is also a good remedy.
~ Hippocrates
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
~ Hippocrates
When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.
~ Hippocrates