35 quotes
“Do not be ashamed to rest. Even the fields lie fallow.”
— Wendell Berry
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
— Etty Hillesum
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
— Epictetus
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.”
— Lin Yutang
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
— Victor Hugo
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
— Dalai Lama
“Activity and rest are the two great healers and knowing when to use each is the art of healing”
— Melody Beattie
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you”
— Anne Lamott
“If you want a place to rest cold Mountain is good”
— Han Shan
“When things fall apart and the ground gives way beneath us we can learn to rest in groundlessness and find healing there”
— Pema Chodron
“In the rush to accomplish we often forget to take time to simply rest and be grateful for what we have”
— Wayne Muller
“True silence is the rest of the mind and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body. It brings nourishment and peace.”
— William Penn
“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“Don't stop. It's okay to take a break.”
— Anonymous
“The peace of wild things comes to me when I lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water.”
“Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought”
— Patrul Rinpoche
“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
“Resting is also part of growth.”
“The net of the sleeper catches fish.”
— Unknown
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
— Homer
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything”
— Irish Proverb
“Rest is a radical act of healing in a world that profits from your exhaustion”
— Thema Bryant
“If you want a place to rest Cold Mountain is good white clouds settle on the rocky peaks”
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, is by no means a waste of time.”
— John Lubbock
“Almost everything works again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you”
— Teresa of Avila
“Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing deity, peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, weary bodies refresh and mollify.”
— Ovid
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
— Jane Austen
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