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Quotes About Rest

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.
~ Peter Boyle
I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION Sometimes, exhausted with toil and endeavour, I wish I could sleep for ever and ever; but then this reflection my longing allays: I shall be doing it one of these days.
~ Piet Hein
If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with ideas of things and will not admit that every individual thing has its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power of reasoning.
~ Plato
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
~ Pliny (the Younger)
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
~ Plutarch
You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.
~ Polly Horvath
Beyond twilight comes a beautiful night, the kind of night the weary dream of. And to all my good friends, to those who have already gone to the back side of the mirror, I bow my head.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Nothing comes to sleepers but dreams.
~ Prince
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound
~ Proverb
Our experience of rest is proportionate to our trusting in him.
~ R. Kent Hughes
Belief, the mental acceptance of a fact as true, will simply not bring rest to any soul. Acknowledging that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Savior of the world will not give us rest. Trust in him is what gives rest to our souls.
~ R. Kent Hughes
We are all children when we sleep.
~ Rabih Alameddine
The movement of life has to rest in its own music.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
If the day is done, if birds sing no more, if the wind has flagged tired, then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me, even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk. From the traveller, whose sack of provisions is empty before the voyage is ended, whose garment is torn and dustladen, whose strength is exhausted, remove shame and poverty, and renew his life like a flower under the cover of thy kindly night.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
In the night of weariness let me give myself up to sleep without struggle, resting my trust upon thee. Let me not force my flagging spirit into a poor preparation for thy worship. It is thou who drawest the veil of night upon the tired eyes of the day to renew its sight in a fresher gladness of awakening.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
~ Adelbert von Chamisso
It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.
~ Maria Konnikova
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
~ Norma McCorvey
I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.
~ Paul Prudhomme
Mathura railway station should be a blend of heritage look with modernisation like escalator and better waiting rooms for general class passengers. Instead of taking rest on the ground, the passengers in general waiting rooms should be provided benches.
~ Hema Malini
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
~ Isabel Allende
Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.
~ Daniel Levitin