Quotes About Rest

You were supposed to be keeping an eye on the place," Donegan said. "I was," Gracious yawned. "You were asleep." "I was resting my eyes." "You were snoring." "I was exercising my lungs.

The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning.

Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

God ordained the Sabbath for us, not just as another requirement from us.

Cooking dinner is a sacred gateway from work to rest, from seven separate lives to one shared table.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28–30

We think of owls as short legged because they tuck in their legs at rest and in flight. But most have long, well-muscled legs, up to half the length of their bodies, with strong bones, especially in their feet.

She would almost prefer to fold her arms and sink into an eternal slumber, so that the great longing of her soul for peaceful rest would at last be gratified.

Job moans that it is wanton cruelty that suffering people, brutalized or in mourning, should have to relive their horrors in dreams. In fact, why should any of us, in seeking rest, be met with nightmares?

You should try getting some sleep." Sloane frowned. "Giraffes only sleep four and a half hours a day." -Sloane

Some were taking this or that nervine cure-all, but the best nervine for a man who is not absolutely past repair, is to break away entirely from his calling or greed and camp out on the sea shore...and patiently wait for the return of good health." James Bradley

I'm always amazed by people and their sleep. I wouldn't ever sleep if I didn't have to.

The thing about sleeping is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. Complete waste of time

Below, Grandma Elvina's recipe for a comfortable bed: Order a medium thickness egg foam pad from Sears, double up a thick wool Army blanket, and pull the bottom sheet taut across the whole thing. Then sprinkle a little loose Avon powder (any flowerly one will do) and rub it into the sheet.

All his [Laurent's] great powerful body wanted was to do nothing, to wallow in never-ending idleness and self-indulgence. He would have liked to eat well, sleep well, satisfy his passions liberally, without stirring from one spot or risking the misfortune of a bit of fatigue.

It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.

se reposant de tout un après-midi de flânerie.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

Cum a putut crede cineva vreodat? c? cei ce odihnesc în pacea p?mântului ar putea avea un somn tulburat?