Quotes About Rest

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep. Nine if you're ugly.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

There aren't enough days in the weekend.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Cuando me jubile, tal vez lo mejor sea abandonarme al ocio, a una especie de modorra compensatoria, a fin de que los nervios, los músculos, la energía se relajen de a poco y se acostumbren bien a morir.

iremos, yo, tus ojos y yo, mientras descansas, bajo los tersos párpados vacíos, a cazar puentes, puentes como liebres, por los campos del tiempo que vivimos.

Our Father in Heaven,' she said, 'comfort the souls that have departed with divine peace, and take them unto You. Grant their bodies soft and quiet rest in the earth till the Last Day, when You will reunite body and soul and lead them into heavenly joy there.

he felt so sleepy he began to cry again. "What is the matter?" asked the Huge One. "I am sleepy and I have no bed, sir." "But if you are sleepy why don't you just sleep?" said the Huge One. "Shut your eyes and go to sleep.

He set down the milk pails to rest and stared at the bright house. This was a man's great joy, to come at nightfall after his day's work to a lighted house. . . . and his beloved was waiting for him with food and warmth and comfort.

without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. "Be still, and know that I am God." Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still.

The root idea of Sabbath is simple as rain falling, basic as breathing. It's that all living things—and many nonliving things too— thrive only by an ample measure of stillness.

In some ways, the whole point of the Exodus was Sabbath. Let my people go, became God's rallying cry, that they might worship me. At the heart of liberty—of being let go—is worship. But at the heart of worship is rest—a stopping from all work, all worry, all scheming, all fleeing—to stand amazed and thankful before God and his work. There can be no real worship without true rest.

In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply.

On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work.

if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.