Rest Quotes

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

~ James Rozoff

I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

When something hurts them, they weep.By night, they rest, they sleep

~ Christina Engela

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

~ Henry Miller

I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

~ Daniel Woodrell

Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'stThy death, which is no more.

~ William Shakespeare

Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night.

~ Bruno Schulz

God didn't create universe in six days of human measure.God's still working, then hasn't yet reached the seventh day.

~ Toba Beta

When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved,Night now accompanied day, and manHad his friend in the absence of the woman.

~ Antonio Machado

The fact that you can act with love even when you don’t feel love is very empowering. Why? Because whereas the feelings of love are fleeting and largely out of your control, you can take the actions of love anytime and anyplace for the whole rest of your life.

~ Russ Harris

Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

When you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest.

~ Candess M. Campbell

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Radiate peace. Who knows? The peace you spread may create the only restful place in your environment.

~ Stella Payton

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

~ Will Schwalbe

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

~ Craig Groeschel

Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...

~ John Geddes

And here I am sitting again, yes, sitting again by this faithful lamp, feeling indescribably serene and unhurried. I shall travel this day's path quite calmly and just take a little holiday—my eyes and head are slightly overstressed and overstrained. One must have the patience to do a little less.

~ –Etty Hillesum

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....Laura Acosta

~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not the satisfying inward rest which we would have expected, nor the outward rest of having everything in order and nothing left out, but a rest which consists in contentment at having sacrificed both to the will of God.

~ Dom Hubert Van Zeller

I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.

~ Brenda Joyce

The Kingdom of Heaven wants to rest in our hearts.

~ Jared Brock

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

~ May Sarton

You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!

~ J.k. Rowling

God shines! God is light! God is life! God is good! God is kind! God is love! I will take time to be Holy because He is Holy. I will be still and know that He is God. I will rest in the light of God. God is faithful, He cannot lie. His Holy Spirit lives in my heart.

~ Pazaria Smith

Heroes rarely get to rest when they desire to.

~ C.j. Brightley

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

~ C.s. Lewis

I KNOW I AM CLUELESS,IT DOESN'T MEAN USELESS,MY MOM SAYS I AM BLESSED,EVEN THOUGH NOW MESSED,I WILL DO MY BEST,GOD WILL DO THE REST.

~ Merlin8Thomas

if you rest at work, you will work at rest

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

~ Mark Buchanan

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

~ Gina Greenlee

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

~ Craig Groeschel

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

~ Thorstein Veblen

In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

~ John Legend

I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the wrapping off of it, I'm like, 'I've got to look.' It's like yelling at a dog going, 'Squirrel!' I cannot not look. And then I spend the rest of the time sitting there with a wet washcloth on my forehead trying to regain consciousness.

~ Tony Stewart

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

~ Peter Jackson

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

~ Roger Moore