Quotes About Rest

I went to the Protestant cemetery, and it sounds really morbid, but when I came here, I thought that this is where I want to die. I feel spiritually found here.

41: SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPY. CATS TAKE NAPS SO THEY'RE ALWAYS READY FOR ANYTHING.

In places like the Blue Zones, the power of rest and community is central to life. But our fast-paced society—full calendars, many extracurricular activities, building careers, raising families, and taking work home—has made self-care and mental health low priorities. The truth is you cannot live a healthy, happy, fulfilled, and long life while neglecting to nourish your mind and spirit.

The lessons are clear. Live close to nature. Love deeply. Eat simple food raised sustainably (ideally by your own hands). Move naturally. Laugh and rest. Actually live. (And live longer, as it turns out.)

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.

Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Do you ever take a holiday? Like, do any of you just wake up and think 'Today feels like a pyjama day.'? or is it always, 'Today is a good day for murdering and stalking.'?

Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.

I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.