Quotes About Rest

The bills would keep on coming, no matter what else was happening in your life and that was good because it gave you a purpose. You worked so you could pay them. You rested on the weekends and generated more bills. Then you went back to work to pay for them. That was the reason for getting up tomorrow. That was the meaning of life.

Sometimes she abrogated responsibility by fantasizing about kidnappers bursting into the house, bundling her into the back of their van, and taking her away for a long rest in a nice, cool, quiet dungeon.

Even really horrible children probably looked beautiful when they slept.

night's sleep!' she said. 'Every day I think, gosh you look a bit tired today, and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired,

Some days she slouched for endless hours on the sofa, yawning hugely, like someone suffering from terrible jet lag.

I try not to sleep. It disturbs the circles I'm growing under my eyes.

We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down -- we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, "Gitmo, the Muslim resort." Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the New York Times trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Zombies never die. They only rest in pieces.

The Lord rested on the Sabbath and he's asking you to rest so that you can spend time with him.

What we have to understand is that Jesus is not offering to make our problems disappear; he's offering to give us rest for our souls while he does the heavy lifting.

Do not feel guilty for needing a break. Even if we want to do it all, we humans aren't made for non-stop work. If stress, exhaustion, or overwhelm are tempting you to round-file your Plan for good, rest until you're ready again and then get back to

Nya sat outside in the shade of the house and ate.

And when you're feeling empty, keep me memory, and leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest

my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion.

Me paso el día sin hacer nada. Sería un consuelo para mí estar con alguien que tampoco hiciera nada.

The Tabernacle becomes our means of rest, significance, and safety while we make our pilgrimage through the world as we know it.

returns to the warmth of the bed, the resented comfort of sleep.

When one of us alternates between time and space the rest of us drive by the airport.

In really nice weather I have to lie down like a complaint or a huge glass bottle in the field.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.

But there is something to say for a forced sabbatical from social media and the rush of life.

She turns off her phone and she rests it on the kitchen counter and feels a wave of relief and weightlessness pass through her. She is unburdened of something she hadn't even known she was carrying.

her sleep vigilantly