Quotes About Rest

His cares are now all ended.

And sleep in dull cold marble.

An old man, broken with the storms of state,Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;Give him a little earth for charity.

The innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care...

Some come to take their easeAnd sleep an act or two.

I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.

Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

tibi terra levis. "May the earth lie light upon thee,

Sit tibi terra levis. "May the earth lie light upon

Glances Two people meet. The sky turns winter, quells whatever they would say. Then, a periphery glance into danger - and an avalanche already on its way. They have been honest all their lives; careful, calm, never in haste; they didn't know what it is to meet. Now they have met: the world is waste. They find they are riding an avalanche feeling at rest, all danger gone. The present looks out of their eyes; they stand calm and still on a speeding stone.

There was a general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one's development as a human being.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name!

In sleep I heard the northern gleams; The stars they were among my dreams; In sleep did I behold the skies

Now, in this blank of things, a harmony, Home-felt, and home-created,comes to heal That grief for which the senses still supply Fresh food; for only then, when memory Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain those busy cares that would allay my pain; Oh! Leave me to myself, nor let me feel The officious touch that makes me droop again.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

stressed and/or tired to do anything more than sprawl on the couch

Isaiah 32:2 speaks of the Lord as "the shadow of a massive rock in a wasted land." When we are weary [wasted], we can rest under the shadow cast by this rock and be refreshed.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

schlafen die kleinen Scheiben des Todes, wie ich verachte sie" which means sleep those tiny slices of death how i despise them

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Rest is essential, but during our periods of rest, we must think to ourselves that in resting we are renewing our energy to fulfill our commitment.