rest

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4e98adf	Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.	christianity jesus religion god heart rest restlessness peace desire longing	Augustine of Hippo
ba0c6d8	A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness.	nature work music happiness life neighborliness usefulness conduct-of-life country rest contentment	Leo Tolstoy
674d159	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, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.	time nature beauty science inspirational clouds grass rest idleness trees sky water summer	John Lubbock
dded11e	Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.	work vacation rest break peace	Maya Angelou
eb158f5	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.	rest tired strong	Brenda Joyce
ca24fe4	Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.	fun jesus work god inspirational blessing rest christian leisure	Elisabeth Elliot
5b61f29	The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.	poetry sadness music rest longing	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
28e66c4	Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.	time history meaning life philosophy rest memory	Julian Barnes
2729c8f	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.	struggle rest goals	Emily Brontë
2650662	Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.	sleep sanity time inspirational rest memory	Roger Zelazny
4959caf	A change is as good as a rest.	rest	Stephen King
25b721b	Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains	unchanging permanence rest	Stephen R. Donaldson
a288e29	To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.	rest tenderness the-self the-unknown	Michael Ondaatje
29043ba	"Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice." Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful. "Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me sharp. But Mr. Frodo, he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink; and well, that's how it is. Sorry. But where HAVE you been to?" "Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes. ... "Hullo, Smeagol!" Frodo said. "Found any food? Have you had any rest?" "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak." "Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," Frodo said. "It's unwise, whether they are true or false." "Smeagol has to take what's given to him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much."	sleep sneak sméagol the-two-towers hobbit frodo-baggins samwise-gamgee rest path gollum lord-of-the-rings name	J.R.R. Tolkien
dd8a066	I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one's life as well, when one can feel that one's work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.	sabbath rest	Oliver Sacks
3efd53d	Rested, shaved, coffee'd, steaked, you will be a different man.	rest	Patrick O'Brian
5af6b74	"And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I used to be afraid of falling in love with people--or having them think I was--that I was chasing them (how ridiculous--I am actually always running away!) but now surely--I should be mature enough to be over that. I am no longer afraid of falling in love, and the other false modesties should vanish. I cannot bear to think "par delicatesse j'ai perdu ma vie." (Because of discretion I have lost my life)."	work rest journal	Anne Morrow Lindbergh
58defea	A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.	sleep rest	Henry Miller
68c499b	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.	rest	Ernest Hemingway
7c46e2f	[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.	uneasiness wandering rest peace	Wallace Stegner
480aadc	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.	sleep nap wu-wei rest energy	Wu Wei
34605e4	"Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O'Donohue points to this when he says that "behind the facade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening."	self-awareness divine-feminine divine-self ground-reality groundedness john-o-donohue sacred-teachings sacred-wisdom sacredness-of-life celtic-spirituality sacredness divine-inspiration feminine being-yourself rest self-realization soul	Meghan Don
3d85b76	An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure.	sleep rest thinking	Diane Setterfield
9dbcfcf	she might be idle, and silent, and forgetful, - and what seemed more than all other privileges - she might be unhappy if she liked.	rest dependancy	Elizabeth Gaskell
1a94a2f	Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.	sleep dreams rest dreaming	Stewart Stafford
a6112a0	We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.	rest peace reward	David Brin

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

christianity jesus religion god heart rest restlessness peace desire longing

Augustine of Hippo

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness.

nature work music happiness life neighborliness usefulness conduct-of-life country rest contentment

Leo Tolstoy

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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, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

time nature beauty science inspirational clouds grass rest idleness trees sky water summer

John Lubbock

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

work vacation rest break peace

Maya Angelou

eb158f5

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.

rest tired strong

Brenda Joyce

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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

fun jesus work god inspirational blessing rest christian leisure

Elisabeth Elliot

5b61f29

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

poetry sadness music rest longing

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

time history meaning life philosophy rest memory

Julian Barnes

2729c8f

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.

struggle rest goals

Emily Brontë

2650662

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

sleep sanity time inspirational rest memory

Roger Zelazny

4959caf

A change is as good as a rest.

rest

Stephen King

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Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

unchanging permanence rest

Stephen R. Donaldson

a288e29

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.

rest tenderness the-self the-unknown

Michael Ondaatje

29043ba

"Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice." Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful. "Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me sharp. But Mr. Frodo, he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink; and well, that's how it is. Sorry. But where HAVE you been to?" "Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes. ... "Hullo, Smeagol!" Frodo said. "Found any food? Have you had any rest?" "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak." "Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," Frodo said. "It's unwise, whether they are true or false." "Smeagol has to take what's given to him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much."

sleep sneak sméagol the-two-towers hobbit frodo-baggins samwise-gamgee rest path gollum lord-of-the-rings name

J.R.R. Tolkien

dd8a066

I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one's life as well, when one can feel that one's work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.

sabbath rest

Oliver Sacks

3efd53d

Rested, shaved, coffee'd, steaked, you will be a different man.

rest

Patrick O'Brian

5af6b74

"And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I used to be afraid of falling in love with people--or having them think I was--that I was chasing them (how ridiculous--I am actually always running away!) but now surely--I should be mature enough to be over that. I am no longer afraid of falling in love, and the other false modesties should vanish. I cannot bear to think "par delicatesse j'ai perdu ma vie." (Because of discretion I have lost my life)."

work rest journal

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

58defea

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

sleep rest

Henry Miller

68c499b

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.

rest

Ernest Hemingway

7c46e2f

[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.

uneasiness wandering rest peace

Wallace Stegner

480aadc

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.

sleep nap wu-wei rest energy

Wu Wei

34605e4

"Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O'Donohue points to this when he says that "behind the facade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening."

self-awareness divine-feminine divine-self ground-reality groundedness john-o-donohue sacred-teachings sacred-wisdom sacredness-of-life celtic-spirituality sacredness divine-inspiration feminine being-yourself rest self-realization soul

Meghan Don

3d85b76

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure.

sleep rest thinking

Diane Setterfield

9dbcfcf

she might be idle, and silent, and forgetful, - and what seemed more than all other privileges - she might be unhappy if she liked.

rest dependancy

Elizabeth Gaskell

1a94a2f

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

sleep dreams rest dreaming

Stewart Stafford

a6112a0

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

rest peace reward

David Brin