Rest Quotes

I'm a peasantI'm the muzhikA pest you're destined to play the musicAnd yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly

~ Criss Jami

Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.

~ Adam Oakley

Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.

~ Nick Harkaway

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

~ Maya Angelou

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

~ Kenneth Grahame

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

~ Alan Cohen

Love turns work into rest.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady

~ H.g. Wells

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Rest and be thankful.

~ William Wordsworth

She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.

~ Christopher Poindexter

[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.

~ Wallace Stegner

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

~ David Brin

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

~ Criss Jami

You ought to pause and enjoy the peace in the moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

~ Camilla Gibb

Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Thank God for the solitude of the Sabbath.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you think he would dare half as much for your love as I have?”“No,” she said. “He never could. That’s why I love him.”“You were desperate for me.”“Desperate. Not happy.” For the first time in all the years she had known him, she truly pitied him. “You can never, ever make me happy. My heart will never rest in you.

~ Rosamund Hodge

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.

~ A.d. Posey

my dear,we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede.

~ Sanober Khan

Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping that when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by the beasts below. Hoping you pull up anything at all.

~ Isaac Marion

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues, it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure.

~ Diane Setterfield

To maintain peace in the world, first maintain peace inside of you. A restless mind can never generate beneficial ideas.

~ Mehek Bassi

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

~ J. G. Hamann

have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal. That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.

~ S.j. Watson

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.

~ Craig Groeschel

We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

~ Gordon T. Smith

I find my rest and my rescue in the Lord.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever situation you are in, you should find an opportunity to renew your strength in the Lord, so that your problems don’t affect your joy, your peace and rest.

~ Sunday Adelaja

O Lord my God, revive my soul!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In times of solitude, I have find rest for my soul and uphold the glory of inner peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours.

~ Amit Kalantri

...unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet...(from silent moments)

~ Muse