Rest Quotes

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.

~ Emily Brontë

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest, it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung, a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed.

~ Steve Maraboli

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

~ Beatrix Potter

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

~ Liezi

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.

~ A.d. Posey

Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.

~ Jared Brock

GRACE means God does the work. FAITH means I let Him.

~ Dr. Lewis W Gregory

Come and discover a love you don't have to work for.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

~ Craig Groeschel

Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.

~ Vann Chow

There is a rest that comes when you live out of your sound. Silence is no longer something to be avoided. It signifies a soul at rest.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful.

~ Joanna Runciman

There is a moon,that rests in the quiet cornersof a lover’s lips.

~ Sanober Khan

Relax and renew your spirit!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Take time for the clearance of the mind, preparing for adherence to perseverance for the journey of another thousand miles.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

~ Ernest Hemingway

May you make time to relax and be refreshed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you, it's me.

~ Criss Jami

The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous person to put an end to the misery of desire. Death, then, for everyone is a kind of homecoming. That is why the ancient sages speak of a dying person as a person who is 'going home.

~ Liezi

Just rest and soon enough, you'll be home. I assured her as she slowly closed her eyes and the smile on her face faded.

~ Grace Fiorre

The Lord said unto me, 'I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs.

~ Anonymous

I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desires after more, are not so provoking to God, nor so destructive to the sinner, as our too sweet enjoying, and rest of spirit in a pleasing state. . . . Our rest is our heaven, and where we take our rest, there we make our heaven(457).

~ Richard Baxter

I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East.

~ Steven Magee

Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest.

~ Ulysses Brave

One day a week I seek to rest from earthly toil and sorrow.Revitalized, I find the strength to battle new tomorrows.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Too many people die in our world today because, they don’t eat well, rest well, play well and live well.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.

~ Francis De Sales

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

~ C.s. Lewis

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

~ Walter Brueggemann

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

~ Blaise Pascal

Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for?

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be.

~ J.r. Rim

Self-employment killed the weekend.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All right,’ Nico relented. ‘Maybe a little …’ He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.

~ Rick Riordan

Rest is essential, but during our periods of rest, we must think to ourselves that in resting we are renewing our energy to fulfill our commitment.

~ Wu Wei

They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest.

~ Sarah J. Maas