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Quotes About Rest

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
~ Octavia Spencer
I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
~ Banksy
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
~ Guy de Maupassant
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
~ Colleen McCullough
You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.
~ Paul Desmond
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
~ David Hockney
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
~ Karl Kraus
When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.
~ Katherine Jackson
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
~ Lucan
Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.
~ William C. Dement
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
~ Virginia Woolf
He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
~ John Bunyan
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
~ Francesca Annis
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
My life has been regulated by insomnia.
~ Louise Bourgeois
The movement of life has its rest in its own music.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
~ Blaise Pascal
Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
~ Georgia Harkness
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.
~ John Owen
But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.
~ Tony Robbins
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.
~ Robert Montgomery
A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.
~ Murasaki Shikibu