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Quotes About Rest

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.
~ Jose Rizal
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
~ Colin Powell
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
~ Walter Brueggemann
The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.
~ Swami Parthasarathy
O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee : I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.
~ George Matheson
If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?.
~ Stephen LaBerge
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
~ C. S. Lewis
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.
~ Martha Beck
Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
~ Mark Buchanan
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
~ John Locke
Ah, why should life all labor be?
~ Alfred the Great
Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down— the noise and the racing of my thoughts.
~ Jennifer Niven
Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down—the noise and the racing of my thoughts.
~ Jennifer Niven
Sleep is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
~ Jennifer Waldburger
Thank God and Jesus for Christmas break. At least I have ten days before I have to back to school and face everyone.
~ Jenny Han
When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.
~ Jenny Offill
Then you have people who say you can tell when rain is coming because the cows are lying down. Not so. According to my new friend at the Met Office, cows lie down because they are tired.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
One of those times," he said, "I think I'd take a nap.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Christ's whole demeanor was such that people were often restful in His presence. This effect is another outworking of the grace of gentleness. People are at rest, or at ease, around the Christian who is truly gentle.
~ Jerry Bridges
Bleary-eyed, they find places to pull off the road and rest. In Walmart parking lots. On quiet suburban streets. At truck stops, amid the lullaby of idling engines. Then in the early morning hours—before anyone notices—they're back on the highway. Driving on, they're secure in this knowledge: The last free place in America is a parking spot.
~ Jessica Bruder
Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
~ Jessica Simpson