Quotes about Rest

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I'm here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

Taoist philosophy, "Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

fly in the afternoon if you're headed west and in the morning if you're going east..If you have to take a night flight, he suggests at least trying to get in a nap the day before. "Taking a nap before you're exhausted can actually reduce the adverse effect of being awake at the wrong time of day. This is what we refer to as prophylactic napping.

Casper] has an interesting origin story.. "We noticed that everyone was drinking green juice and working at standing desks to stay healthy and increase productivity, yet sleep was something that everyone sacrificed..Even worse: they bragged about how little they slept.

Throughout history, famous nappers have included Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and John F. Kennedy.

And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: "Counting backward from 300 by threes—it works like magic and you never get below 250." On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

I think taking a gap after a long-running show is a must.

When we enter the gates of pain and use the healing power of memory, we will hear God speaking, and we can take comfort and rest our weary souls in his crazy, holy grace.

I'll tell you this. I've labored all my life. I've baked and brewed. I've woven, spun, and dyed. I've kept my husband's house and raised his young. And many other things besides. So where was time for holiness? What strength was left for faith? Let monks and nuns and priests have care of that. The dead shall rise? The Lord himself will sit as justicer in manor court? It may be true for all I know. But in the meanwhile bread, beer, work, and rest at night, they're truth enough for me.