Quotes About Rest

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,By all their country's wishes bless'd!

Ye who, borne about in chariots and sedans know no fatigue but that of idleness.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest,A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may bide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

I cannot account for this numbness of feeling that weighs me down and makes me helpless," he wrote sadly to Edward. "I think without a relief from all work, without a long and perfect holiday, I will never rise.

Beyond the mothriddled light their faces were rapt and transfixed, he sang about death as if it was the only kept promise out of all life's false starts and switchbacks, all there was at the end of the dusty road, his voice told them about calm and quiet and eternal rest. No landlord, no cotton to chop, no ticket at the company store growing like a cancer. Just time itself frozen like leaves in winter ice and nothing in the round world to worry about or dread.

There are four things that we know improve brain health and brain function," says Shubin Stein. "Meditation, exercise, sleep, and nutrition.

Tranquillus Deus tranquillat omnia—a tranquil God tranquilizes all things.

Though some precious souls, that have closed with Christ, and embraced the gospel, be not at present brought to rest in their own consciences, but continue for a while under some dissatisfactions and troubles in their own spirits; yet even then they have peace of conscience in a threefold respect. In precio, in promisso, in semine—in what purchases it, in the promise, and in the germ.

he must needs be comfortable that hath so oft a pillow to lay his head on as Christ's lap.

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

He nodded, sagely, at the lot of us, and yawned; then glanced at the clock. "Out you go!" he said, in friendly fashion, using the recognised formula. "I want a sleep." We rose, shook him by the hand, and went out presently into the night and the quiet of the Embankment; and so to our homes.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Maybe the dead have finally gone to rest." "They never do, Bo." He thought about the dead who were with him now and who always would be, and he knew Otter was right.

rubbed his weary eyes

Hardly had they rested when the waves carried them out again, like a nightmare that repeats itself over and over through the night, and over and over again through the years. Back and forth they went and he feared that her strength could not hold. He had no confidence, not in himself, nor in her. He felt like a helpless child, and Diane seemed helpless too, their long struggle getting them nowhere, only repeating itself--contraction, release, contraction again.

All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.

Never call your office while you're on vacation. That's always been one of my hard and fast rules.

The beast he had fought, that ravens upon others, slept underneath my chair.

Siempre he envidiado a las personas que se duermen con facilidad. Sus cerebros deben de estar más limpios, los suelos del cráneo bien barridos, y todos los pequeños monstruos de la mente encerrados en un baúl a los pies de la cama.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness,

I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness.