Quotes About Rest

In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.

Bury me where I die.

Do not waste your life over working. Live a fuller sacred life.

Rest leads to renewal of spirit, soul and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am taking time to relax, renew and revive.

When I can't fall sleep, I pray.

Important decisions are better made after a good nights sleep

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

With Great power comes great need to take a nap

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace." Will Robins

The greatest thing about a nap is that it gives you two days for the price of one. You have the whole day before the nap, and when you wake up you have a whole day ahead of you.

He longed for a minute that didn't matter: perhaps for time to take a nap or watch something silly on television without feeling guilt or regret. He needed relief from the feeling that he was wasting precious time, not the added pressure of life's greatest to-do list. I now realize that humans require down time. Quiet time is necessary to process all that happens to us on a daily basis—let alone over the course of a life.

Overal door liefderijk water omhuld te zijn, nergens pijn of weerstand meer ontmoeten, is nog heerlijker dan slapen.

The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness

We want trumpets that sound like thunder, and men to act as though they were going to war with those corrupt and degrading principles that rob one of all rights, merely because he is ignorant, and of a little different color. Let us have principles that will give every one his due; and then shall wars cease, and the weary find rest.

At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

O autumn, laden with fruit, and stain'd With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof, there thou mayst rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.