525 Quotes About Rest

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).

Rest a while as the new growth takes place. Observe changes in your outer and inner world. This is your foundation for the next step.

Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.

Whoever find rest, shall rejoice.

It's not worth staying up all night just to paint masterpieces.

Tears welled in my eyes, bringing to the surface an emotion that I had always thought would forever linger out of my reach. I was at peace.

There’s something demanding about the stillness of the night; as if it knows our need for rest and demands that we have it. And if I impale the stillness with the incessant noise and raucous clamor of a mind ever ill at rest and in doing so I refuse to let the night bring what it does, the night will remain still but my soul will not.

No matter how strong or strong-willed you are, you cannot live a stressful, maxed-out life without that pace eventually biting you in the butt. It is necessary to take breaks, set parameters, and be kind to yourself if you want to continue making an impact in your little corner of the world.

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